diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8a1c9e26..c5999497 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ Un-escape a glob string that may contain some escaped characters.
 If the `windowsPathsNoEscape` option is used, then square-brace
 escapes are removed, but not backslash escapes.  For example, it
 will turn the string `'[*]'` into `*`, but it will not turn
-`'\\*'` into `'*'`, becuase `\` is a path separator in
+`'\\*'` into `'*'`, because `\` is a path separator in
 `windowsPathsNoEscape` mode.
 
 When `windowsPathsNoEscape` is not set, then both brace escapes
diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index 50880b40..d43c6ecb 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
   "name": "minimatch",
-  "version": "7.4.0",
+  "version": "7.4.1",
   "lockfileVersion": 3,
   "requires": true,
   "packages": {
     "": {
       "name": "minimatch",
-      "version": "7.4.0",
+      "version": "7.4.1",
       "license": "ISC",
       "dependencies": {
         "brace-expansion": "^2.0.1"
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index a5780cc2..8432b497 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
   "author": "Isaac Z. Schlueter <i@izs.me> (http://blog.izs.me)",
   "name": "minimatch",
   "description": "a glob matcher in javascript",
-  "version": "7.4.0",
+  "version": "7.4.1",
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",
     "url": "git://github.com/isaacs/minimatch.git"
diff --git a/src/unescape.ts b/src/unescape.ts
index 67cb7cae..12e2ca53 100644
--- a/src/unescape.ts
+++ b/src/unescape.ts
@@ -21,5 +21,5 @@ export const unescape = (
 ) => {
   return windowsPathsNoEscape
     ? s.replace(/\[([^\/\\])\]/g, '$1')
-    : s.replace(/((?!\\).|^)\[([^\/])\]/g, '$1$2').replace(/\\([^\/])/g, '$1')
+    : s.replace(/((?!\\).|^)\[([^\/\\])\]/g, '$1$2').replace(/\\([^\/])/g, '$1')
 }
diff --git a/test/escape-has-magic.js b/test/escape-has-magic.js
index 8e5a1e4d..a0da3646 100644
--- a/test/escape-has-magic.js
+++ b/test/escape-has-magic.js
@@ -25,5 +25,8 @@ for (const p of patterns) {
   t.matchSnapshot([maybeMagic.set, maybeMagic.hasMagic()], pattern)
 }
 
+// edge case, [\\] should be unescaped as [], not \\
+t.equal(unescape('[\\]'), '[]')
+
 t.equal(new Minimatch('{a,b}').hasMagic(), false)
 t.equal(new Minimatch('{a,b}', { magicalBraces: true }).hasMagic(), true)