The Monkey's Paw
by W.W. Jacobs
First published in Harper’s Monthly in September 1902 and collected later that year in The Lady of the Barge, W. W. Jacobs’s tale “The Monkey’s Paw” is a work of supernatural fiction. Set in an isolated home on a cold and stormy night, the story turns on the arrival of a mysterious talisman said to grant three wishes. What follows is a tale of fate, grief, and the peril of tampering with forces meant to lie beyond human reach. Jacobs builds tension that culminates in the ending.
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First published in Harper’s Monthly in September 1902 and collected later that year in The Lady of the Barge, W. W. Jacobs’s tale “The Monkey’s Paw” is a work of supernatural fiction. Set in an isolated home on a cold and stormy night, the story turns on the arrival of a mysterious talisman said to grant three wishes. What follows is a tale of fate, grief, and the peril of tampering with forces meant to lie beyond human reach. Jacobs builds tension that culminates in the ending.