The Last Unicorn: The Lost Version

The Last Unicorn: The Lost Version

Front cover of the limited edition
Author Peter S. Beagle
Cover artist Michael Kaluta
Country United States
Series Last Unicorn
Published 2006 Subterranean Press
Media type Print (limited hardcover)
Pages 92 pp.
ISBN 978-1-59606-083-8
OCLC 82369523

The Last Unicorn: The Lost Version is a version of the original manuscript of The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle, originally written in 1962. It was printed as a 1,000-copy limited edition hardcover by Subterranean Press in 2006 (January 2007 in ISFDB).

This slim volume contained Beagle's original 85-page unfinished start on the story, plus a new introduction and afterword that set the fragment in context and discuss the differences between it and the complete novel published in 1968. These differences are extensive: the story takes place in the modern world, and aside from the unicorn and the butterfly, none of the familiar characters are there. (The unicorn's traveling companion is a demon with two heads, one named Webster and the other Azazel.)

This original fragment is also scheduled to be reprinted in The First Last Unicorn and Other Beginnings, from Conlan Press.


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