Contents ( 23)
- The Last Unicorn
- Author’s Introduction
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- Chapter 13
- Chapter 14
- Two Hearts
- Introduction
- Two Hearts
- A Conversation With Peter S. Beagle
- Works by Peter S. Beagle
- Afterword
- About the Author
THEATRE
The Fountain, 1957 (musical book & lyrics; college production)
The Last Unicorn, 1988 (dance/theater adaptation, script & incidental lyrics)
The Midnight Angel, 1993 (opera libretto, adaptation of “Come Lady Death”)
ARTICLES & ESSAYS
“Goodbye to the Bronx,” Holiday, December 1964
“The Wayward Reader,” Holiday, June 1965
“A Long Way To Go,” Holiday, February & March 1965 (abridged version of I See By My Outfit)
“My Last Heroes,” Holiday, August 1965
“Tolkien’s Magic Ring,” 1966
“On Being the Man of the House,” Saturday Evening Post, January 1967
“D. H. Lawrence in Taos,” Holiday, September 1967
“Cockfight,” Saturday Evening Post, August 1968
“The Poor People’s Campaign,” 1968 (written for the Saturday Evening Post; unpublished until 1997)
“The Jeaning of America,” Oui, September 1975
“Coyote,” Parabola, Spring 1983
“Pittsburgh Stories,” 1997
“Learning a Trade,” 1997
“The Good Vampire: Spike and Angel,” 2004
“Hanukkah in Malaga,” National Public Radio, 2005
“The Screaming,” The Raven, February 2005
“Rebekah Naomi Cox,” The Raven, May 2005
“Something To Be Learned: Teachers,” 2006
“Hugo Awards and Other Astonishments,” The Raven, January 2007
INTRODUCTIONS
The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1973
In the Ocean Wind, 1974
The Loch Ness Monster Watchers, 1974
The Adventures of Yemima, by Abraham Soyer, 1979
A Mirror For Observers, by Edgar Pangborn, 1983
Adventures in Unhistory, by Avram Davidson, 1993
The Boss in the Wall, by Avram Davidson & Grania Davis, 1998
The Charwoman’s Shadow, by Lord Dunsany, 1999
The Treasury of the Fantastic, 2002
Limekiller, by Avram Davidson, 2003
POETRY
“At My Age”
“Constructive Criticism”
“Deep Woods (The Unicorn Sings to Memory)”
“Dragonsong”
“The Ferret Speaks Under William Blake’s Window”
“Grace”
“For Lisa Atkinson”
“Lilith”
“The Long Way Home”
“Margaret 1960”
“Mister Harris”
“Naps”
“North Country Ballad”
“Persephone in September”
“Rain’s Coming”
“Reflections”
“Song for James D. Houston, 1933–2009”
“Stable of Dragons”
“Survivor”
“Thais’ Lullaby”
“The Unicorn Tapestries”
“Very Plaintive Song”
“Vespa”
“What I Carry With Me”
“Wintersong”
SONGS
“Aggravating Woman”
“The Alien”
“All I Know (Two Friendly Strangers)”
“Animal Song”
“The Ballad of Christian X, King of Denmark: 1912–1947”
“The Ballad of Eleanor Roosevelt”
“The Ballad of Grandfather Selsim”
“The Ballad of Mary Read”
“Bears Bears Bears”
“Dark Water Down” (a Sirit Byar song)
“The Day They Struck Oil in Harlem “
“The Dinosaurs”
“The Door to Before”
“The Dracula Rag”
“The Egg Cream Song”
“Getting It Wrong”
“Grandmother’s Ghost” (a Sirit Byar song)
“The Great Watsonville Chicken Drop Talking Blues”
“Hello, You”
“Homecoming Song”
“I Want to be a Club Singer”
“Illahee”
“The Innkeeper’s Song”
“Irving the Goldfish”
“The Lady Made of Flowers” (a Sirit Byar song)
“The Last Song of Sirit Byar”
“Lovely Lo”
“Magicians’ Wives”
“Mantra”
“Matsev”
“Mom on the Street”
“The Perfect Beer”
“Physics Teacher Gunch”
“The Pigeon and the Dog”
“The Pirates of the D”
“Prince Lir’s Song”
“Rhythm Section”
“The Roving Garbageman”
“The Saints Want Justice”
“Save It for the Next Life”
“She’s My Gibson J-45”
“Singing for Grandpa”
“Song for a Married Lady”
“Song for the Seattle Princess”
“Song for Victoria”
“Stay Out of My Dreams”