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Peter S. Beagle, ed.

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Peter S. Beagle was born in 1939 and raised in the Bronx, just a few blocks from Woodlawn Cemetery, the inspiration for his first novel, A Fine And Private Place. He originally proclaimed he would be a writer when 10 years old: subsequent events have proven him either prescient or even more stubborn than hitherto suspected. Today, thanks to classic works such as The Last Unicorn, Tamsin, and The Innkeeper's Song, he is acknowledged as America's greatest living fantasy author; and his dazzling abilities with language, characters, and magical storytelling have earned him many millions of fans around the world.

In addition to stories and novels he has written numerous teleplays and screenplays, including the animated versions of The Lord Of The Rings and The Last Unicorn, plus the fan-favorite "Sarek" episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. He is also a gifted poet, lyricist, and singer/songwriter.

In 2007, Beagle won the Hugo and Nebula Awards for his original novelette, "Two Hearts," from The Line Between .

For more details on Peter's career and upcoming titles, see either www.peterbeagle.com or http://www.conlanpress.com/.
The Secret History of Fantasy
by Peter S. Beagle, ed.

Also by Peter S. Beagle
The Rhinoceros Who Quoted Nietzsche
A Fine and Private Place
The Line Between
We Never Talk About My Brother
Sleight of Hand

Trade paperback / 432 pp. / 6 x 9 / $15.95 / August 2010 / 978-1-892391-99-5

Cover Design by Ann Monn
Interior Design by John Coulthart

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Shhhh. The secret is out.

Fantasy is more than just sword-and-sorcery novels of epic adventures. Here are innovative tales where mythology, fairy tales, and archetypes are re-imagined into a new style of storytelling.

Anthologist Peter S. Beagle knows fantasy. The author of the inventive fantasy novel, The Last Unicorn and the introduction to The Lord of the Rings now introduces the gifted writers that returned to the classics and throughly redefined the genre: Gregory Maguire, Francesca Lia Block, Robert Holdstock, Patricia McKillip, and Steven Millhauser, and others who have lead the way to expanding imaginative frontiers.

From the depths of an dangerous English forest to the top of the Tower of Babel, on a caffeinated journey to the empire of ice cream, discover The Secret History of Fantasy.

Table of Contents:
Introduction by Peter S. Beagle
"Ancestor Money" by Maureen F. McHugh
"Scarecrow" by Gregory Maguire
"Lady of the Skulls" by Patricia A. McKillip
"We Are Norsemen" by T. C. Boyle
"The Barnum Museum" by Steven Millhauser
"Mrs. Todd's Shortcut" by Stephen King
"Bears Discover Fire" by Terry Bisson
"Bones" by Francesca Lia Block
"Snow, Glass, Apples" by Neil Gaiman
"Fruit and Words" by Aimee Bender
"The Empire of Ice Cream" by Jeffrey Ford
"The Edge of the World" by Michael Swanwick
"Super Goat Man" Jonathan Lethem
"John Uskglass and the Cumbrian Charcoal Burner" by Susanna Clarke
"The Book of Martha" by Octavia E. Butler
"The Vita AEterna Mirror Company" by Yann Martel
"Sleight of Hand" by Peter S. Beagle
"Mythago Wood" by Robert Holdstock
"26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss" by Kij Johnson
Essays-
"The Critics, the Monsters, and the Fantasists" by Ursula K. Le Guin
"The Making of the American Fantasy Genre" by David Hartwell

"All 17 stories eschew all or most of the conventions of commercial fantasy...Start reading and expect to enjoy."
—Booklist

"...set[s] out to rewrite our concept of fantasy, and with the help of some of the world's best writers, succeeds admirably."
-The Agony Column

Praise for Peter S. Beagle:

"For years a loving readership has consulted him as an expert on those heart's reasons that reason does not know."
—Ursula K. Le Guin, author of A Wizard of Earthsea

"Peter S. Beagle is (in no particular order) a wonderful writer, a fine human being, and a bandit prince out to steal readers' hearts."
-Tad Williams, author of Tailchaser's Song
 

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