Issue: #5
In the India of the British Raj, young journalist and would-be novelist Rudyard Kipling gets an offer he can't refuse. It's an offer that will catapult him to fame, fortune and inexorable destruction. The secret history of the Unwritten begins in this stand-alone story...
First appearances: Mister Locke, Carrie Balestier
Creators: Todd Klein, Pornsak Pichetshote, Peter Gross, Yuko Shimizu, Chris Chuckry, Mike Carey
Characters: Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling, Mowgli, Mister Locke, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, Leviathan, Carrie Balestier, Shere Khan, Wilson Taylor, Oscar Wilde, Mister Pullman