Title: Number of the Beast (parts 17-24) - Novel
Written:   Written October - December 1978 using material from (including first 250 pages of The Panki-Barsoom Number of the Beast (Op. 176)     Pages: 1513
 
Description:
Part 17, 172 pages, contains manuscript with numerous crossouts, pages 1-165.
Part 18, 228 pages, contains manuscript with numerous crossouts, pages 165-226.
Part 19, 250 pages, contains manuscript with numerous crossouts, pages 2-250 (numbering is erratic).
Part 20, 167 pages, contains manuscript with numerous crossouts, pages to end.
Part 21, 205 pages, contains clean manuscript copy, pages 1-199.
Part 22, 135 pages, contains clean manuscript copy, pages 200-333.
Part 23, 97 pages, contains clean manuscript copy, pages 335-429.
Part 24, 258 pages, contains clean manuscript copy, pages 430-686, end.
 
Publication: 
Novel 219,000 words. Serial publication of 27,250 word excerpt and reduction in Omni magazine October 1979; published after auction by Fawcett Columbine in 1980, with a British release a few weeks earlier.
 
Notes: Cross Referenced: in OPUS176. Alternate working titles: The Gay Deceiver and Always Tip the Headsman