At the end of December 2008, Peter S. Beagle announced that he had written several new stories which were directly or indirectly linked to "The Last Unicorn". These included three unicorn stories ("The Story of Kao Yu" about a Chinese ki-lin, "My Son Heydari and the Karkadann", and "Olfert Dapper's Day", a fictional account of the Dutch physician and writer's encounter with a unicorn in the Maine woods) and two Schmendrick stories ("The Green-Eyed Boy" and "Schmendrick Alone"). In 2017, these stories were gathered in a short story collection titled "The Overneath". "The Green-Eyed Boy", which earlier appeared in the September/October 2016 issue of "Fantasy and Science Fiction" magazine, describes the early days of Schmendrick's apprenticeship under Nikos. A third completed Schmendrick story was also mentioned by Beagle in December 2008.