diff --git a/lib/parse.js b/lib/parse.js
index 16023f08..4b85915c 100644
--- a/lib/parse.js
+++ b/lib/parse.js
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ const maxMetaEntrySize = 1024 * 1024
 const Entry = require('./read-entry.js')
 const Pax = require('./pax.js')
 const zlib = require('minizlib')
+const { nextTick } = require('process')
 
 const gzipHeader = Buffer.from([0x1f, 0x8b])
 const STATE = Symbol('state')
@@ -59,6 +60,7 @@ const DONE = Symbol('onDone')
 const SAW_VALID_ENTRY = Symbol('sawValidEntry')
 const SAW_NULL_BLOCK = Symbol('sawNullBlock')
 const SAW_EOF = Symbol('sawEOF')
+const CLOSESTREAM = Symbol('closeStream')
 
 const noop = _ => true
 
@@ -89,7 +91,6 @@ module.exports = warner(class Parser extends EE {
         this.emit('prefinish')
         this.emit('finish')
         this.emit('end')
-        this.emit('close')
       })
     }
 
@@ -114,6 +115,9 @@ module.exports = warner(class Parser extends EE {
     this[ABORTED] = false
     this[SAW_NULL_BLOCK] = false
     this[SAW_EOF] = false
+
+    this.on('end', () => this[CLOSESTREAM]())
+
     if (typeof opt.onwarn === 'function') {
       this.on('warn', opt.onwarn)
     }
@@ -217,6 +221,10 @@ module.exports = warner(class Parser extends EE {
     }
   }
 
+  [CLOSESTREAM] () {
+    nextTick(() => this.emit('close'))
+  }
+
   [PROCESSENTRY] (entry) {
     let go = true
 
diff --git a/lib/unpack.js b/lib/unpack.js
index 458f593d..bfe0dddb 100644
--- a/lib/unpack.js
+++ b/lib/unpack.js
@@ -234,7 +234,6 @@ class Unpack extends Parser {
       this.emit('prefinish')
       this.emit('finish')
       this.emit('end')
-      this.emit('close')
     }
   }
 
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index bae4b5e2..5db9f816 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -33,9 +33,7 @@
     "events-to-array": "^1.1.2",
     "mutate-fs": "^2.1.1",
     "rimraf": "^3.0.2",
-    "tap": "^16.0.1",
-    "tar-fs": "^2.1.1",
-    "tar-stream": "^2.2.0"
+    "tap": "^16.0.1"
   },
   "license": "ISC",
   "engines": {
diff --git a/test/extract.js b/test/extract.js
index ae13739c..5bbffeec 100644
--- a/test/extract.js
+++ b/test/extract.js
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ const mkdirp = require('mkdirp')
 const { promisify } = require('util')
 const rimraf = promisify(require('rimraf'))
 const mutateFS = require('mutate-fs')
+const pipeline = promisify(require('stream').pipeline)
+const https = require('https')
 
 t.teardown(_ => rimraf(extractdir))
 
@@ -54,6 +56,32 @@ t.test('basic extracting', t => {
   t.end()
 })
 
+t.test('ensure an open stream is not prematuraly closed', t => {
+  const dir = path.resolve(extractdir, 'basic-with-stream')
+
+  t.beforeEach(async () => {
+    await rimraf(dir)
+    await mkdirp(dir)
+  })
+
+  const check = async t => {
+    fs.lstatSync(dir + '/node-tar-main/LICENSE')
+    await rimraf(dir)
+    t.end()
+  }
+
+  t.test('async promisey', t => {
+    https.get('https://codeload.github.com/npm/node-tar/tar.gz/main', (stream) => {
+      return pipeline(
+        stream,
+        x({ cwd: dir }, ['node-tar-main/LICENSE'])
+      ).then(_ => check(t))
+    })
+  })
+
+  t.end()
+})
+
 t.test('file list and filter', t => {
   const file = path.resolve(tars, 'utf8.tar')
   const dir = path.resolve(extractdir, 'filter')