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The Unknown (1963 anthology)

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The Unknown
Cover of the first edition.
EditorD. R. Bensen
IllustratorEdd Cartier
Cover artistJohn Schoenherr
LanguageEnglish
GenreFantasy
PublisherPyramid Books
Publication date
1963
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (paperback)
Pages192
Followed byThe Unknown Five 

The Unknown is an anthology of fantasy fiction short stories edited by D. R. Bensen and illustrated by Edd Cartier, the second of a number of anthologies drawing their contents from the American magazine Unknown of the 1930s-1940s. It was first published in paperback by Pyramid Books in April 1963. It was reprinted by the same publisher in October 1970, and by Jove/HBJ in August 1978[1] A companion anthology, The Unknown Five, was issued in 1964.

The book collects eleven tales by various authors, together with a foreword by Isaac Asimov and an introduction by the editor.

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