diff --git a/fuzz/build.mk b/fuzz/build.mk
index b2e2d06a..ac384576 100644
--- a/fuzz/build.mk
+++ b/fuzz/build.mk
@@ -85,9 +85,8 @@ $(foreach F,$(CORPUS_EXTRA),$(eval \
 	mkdir -p $(CORPUS_DIR); \
 	cp $(F) $(CORPUS_DIR)/$(SHA1_$(notdir $(F)))))
 
-fuzz/$(OUTPUT_DIR)/fuzz_corpus.stamp: fuzz/original-corpus.tar.gz $(CORPUS_EXTRA)
+fuzz/$(OUTPUT_DIR)/fuzz_corpus.stamp: $(CORPUS_EXTRA)
 	mkdir -p $(CORPUS_DIR)
-	(cd $(CORPUS_DIR); tar xzf ../../original-corpus.tar.gz)
 	touch $@
 
 $(foreach B,$(FUZZERS),$(eval \
diff --git a/fuzz/original-corpus.tar.gz b/fuzz/original-corpus.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index 63db162d..00000000
Binary files a/fuzz/original-corpus.tar.gz and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/fuzz/qtest/fuzz.test b/fuzz/qtest/fuzz.test
index 73d4bd9d..ad3e448f 100644
--- a/fuzz/qtest/fuzz.test
+++ b/fuzz/qtest/fuzz.test
@@ -12,11 +12,7 @@ my $td = new TestDriver('fuzz');
 my $qpdf_n_test_files = 31;
 my @extra = glob("../qpdf_extra/*.fuzz");
 my $qpdf_n_extra_files = scalar(@extra);
-my $qpdf_n_orig_files = 2557;
-my $qpdf_n_files = ($qpdf_n_test_files +
-                    $qpdf_n_extra_files +
-                    $qpdf_n_orig_files);
-
+my $qpdf_n_files = ($qpdf_n_test_files + $qpdf_n_extra_files);
 
 my @fuzzers = (
     ['ascii85' => 1],