THE LAST UNICORN —
UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK

Price $0 for 2 sample chapters, $30.00 download, $30 unsigned MP3-CD edition, $40 unsigned 8-CD edition. Downloads available now. CD editions not yet shipping. (Signed and personalized copies will cost more.)

Listening time: 7 hours and 20 minutes. Reader: Peter S. Beagle. Music: Jeff Slingluff.

This is the first unabridged audiobook of The Last Unicorn. Mind you, there was a horribly abridged edition released on cassette around 1990, one that chopped out more than half the book and just about all of Peter's songs...but that evil memory is best left to wither into complete obscurity. Just the thing to do with an author noted for his magical skill with the English language, right? Throw away 50% of the words. (Next up, the greatly-shortened version of the Kng Jms Bbl. All the grace in half the syllables! But we digress.)

When we got the opportunity to do this project, we wanted to do it right. We got Peter himself to do the reading. We brought in the best voice recording guy in San Francisco, Jim Lively, to engineer and co-produce. We called up Jeff Slingluff in Los Angeles, and talked him into writing beautiful music that was all directly inspired by the text. No needle-drop cues, no fitting squarish pegs into roundish holes, no pre-recorded anything. Carefully-crafted original material only, featuring Jeff's virtuoso guitar work and deep gift for melodic structure. Then we recorded and mixed everything on Pro Tools HD (High Definition), and for the downloadable version we chose MP3-LAME encoding, which despite its unfortunate acronym provides the highest audio quality publicly available.

The whole project took over a year from first recording session to final mix. We did everything just as many times as it took for us to be completely satisfied, because we knew we were working with a classic. When you listen to what the team came together to create, we hope you will be pleased.

Yes, I would like to get The Last Unicorn audiobook.

A FINE AND PRIVATE PLACE —
UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK

Price $0 for 2 sample chapters, $30.00 download. Available now.

Listening time: 8 hours and 40 minutes. Reader: Peter S. Beagle.

We are pleased to finally be able to offer Peter's first novel, the classic fantasy A Fine and Private Place, as a downloadable audiobook. Written when Peter was just 19 years old, and originally published in 1960, it is just as vital and deeply-moving today as ever.

From the back cover of the current trade paperback edition: "For nineteen years, Jonathan Rebeck has hidden from the world within the confines of the Bronx's Yorkchester Cemetery, making an abandoned mausoleum his secret home. He speaks with the newly dead as they pass from life to wherever spirits truly go, providing them with comfort, an understanding ear, and even the occasional game of chess.

"But Mr. Rebeck's reclusive life is soon to be disrupted. An impossible love has blossomed between two ghosts, and Rebeck himself is drawn to a living woman. Helped along by a cynical talking raven and a mysterious cemetery guard, these four souls must learn the true difference between life and death, and make choices that really are forever.

"Told with an elegiac wisdom, Peter S. Beagle's first novel is a timeless work of fantasy, imbued with hope and wonder."

Yes, I would like the A Fine and Private Place audiobook.