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Three Duets for Virgin and Nosehorn: "Rhinocerus" is Latin for "nosehorn"

We Blazed: weird AI plot, very Black Mirror-ish

A Plague of Unicorns: reads like a Greek myth

The Tenth Worthy: dystopian future NYC; the Wasting
Nine heroes - 3 pagan (Alexander, Caesar, Hector), 3 Hebrew (David, Joshua, Judah Maccabee), 3 Christian (Godfrey, Charlemagne, Arthur of Britain)

Survivor: unicorn tattoo

A Thief in the Night: the Antichrist trying to seduce the new Messiah

Taken He Cannot Be: "The cruelest is the unicorn, a monster that belloweth horribly, bodied like a horse, footed like an elephant, tailed like a swine, and headed like a stag. His horn sticketh out of the midst of his forehead, of a wonderful brightness about four foot long, so sharp, that whatsoever he pusheth at, he striketh it through easily. He is never caught alive; killed he may be, but taken he cannot be."

The Hunt of the Unicorn: Is Lazarus a unicorn in this? I'm confused.

The Devil on Myrtle Ave.: the devil uses a unicorn as a vessel?

Winter Requiem: is this the David of "David played a secret chord"?

Daughter of the Tao: unicorn as one of the four mythical creatures of China

A Rare Breed: there's unicorns outside the city?

What the Eyes Sees, What the Heart Feels: Unicorns who witness births and who are reapers

Stampede of Light: A woman lures children away and turns them into unicorns? Honestly, after "cumulative files" was shortened more than once as "cum files" I completely blacked out

The Brew: whiskey with a unicorn label

Mirror of Lop Nor: this sounds like it's based on some sort of Mongolian fable?

The Same But Different: finding a tri-colored oryx horn in Africa

Big Dogs, Strange Days: The Native Americans guard the crossbreed unicorn/horses that roam the Americas

Gilgamesh Recidivus: a unicorn in Russia, a legend who wants to die

Seven for a Secret: unicorns can turn into people?

Sea Dreams: Not really any unicorns besides the mention of narwhals being the "unicorns of the sea" but it does take place in Florida (Cocoa Beach / Florida State) so there's that.

Old One-Antler: A caribou who's antlers have grown into one single twisted antler

Professor Gottesman and the Indian Rhinoceros: classification is Rhinoceros unicornis so idk anyone would be surprised if this was where unicorns came from