The Folk of the Air

This was Beagle's first novel after "The Last Unicorn". Written nearly twenty years later, it is more urban fantasy than pure fantasy. It explores what he calls the League for Archaic Pleasures, which is nothing more than a thinly veiled Society for Creative Anachronisms (SCA), and throws some magic into it. I liked the basic plot and the prose, but I thought the pacing was way too slow. It suffers from too many descriptions of the different activities and inner workings of the LAP. On the other hand, it is quite the world-building, describing the LAP and imbuing it with gods and magic. This book won the Mythopoeic Award in 1987.

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