The Secret History of Fantasy by Peter S. Beagle, ed. ISBN: 9781892391995 Published: 2010 Available Format(s): Trade Paperback Gregory Maguire, Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Lethem, Steven Millhauser, Aimee Bender, Stephen King, Octavia Butler, Ursula K. Le Guin, Maureen F. McHugh, Patricia A. McKillip, Terry Bisson, Francesca Lia Block, Neil Gaiman, Jeffrey Ford, Michael Swanwick, Octavia E. Butler, Yann Martel, Peter S. Beagle, Robert Holdstock, Kij Johnson, and David G. Hartwell 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 thoroughly redefined the genre. From the depths of a 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.