Beagle is so terribly underrated and why his urban fantasy set on a California campus among Medieval re-enactment societies is not as well known as the works of Neil Gaiman or Charles de Lint, who will both use the same literary devices of introducing creatures from a mythical past into an ordinary modern setting. Imagine my surprise when I checked the actual publishing date and noticed the almost twenty year gap! This low output (barring a few short stories and non-fiction) might explain in part why Mr. I read somewhere that "The Folk of the Air" comes after "The Last Unicorn" in his catalogue, so in my mind the action was set somewhere at the tail end of the sixties. This is an excellent summary of the novel Peter S Beagle took so many years to write. They were playing with time and magic, but time is tricky and magic is dangerous!
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