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William Wymark Jacobs (1863-1943) was an English author best known for his 1902 story ""The Monkey's Paw,"" first published in Harper's Monthly, then collected in his The Lady of the Barge that same year. A humorist by trade, Jacobs here delivers something far darker: a parable of wishcraft and consequence, so lean it feels chiseled, and as compact as it is catastrophic. In a rain-slick English parlor, a cursed talisman changes hands - from soldier to family, from caution to curiosity. What begins as maternal grief abruptly curdles into spiritual trespass, and the price is steep. The paw grants three wishes, yes, but each one is a rung down the ladder to ruin. The warning is clear: the paw does not punish, it fulfills - and in that fulfillment lies the profane undoing.

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""'The Monkey's Paw' is a thrilling and tragic tale."" -Boston Evening Transcript ""Ghastly in the extreme."" -The Liverpool Mercury ""Powerful in conception and thoroughly artistic in execution."" -New-York Tribune ""'The Monkey's Paw' is of a very weird, uncanny, blood-curdling sort and the reader must indeed be hardened who can finish it without a new sensation or feel an impression that will be abiding."" -The Buffalo Commercial ""A weird and unusual story."" -The Harrisburg Telegraph ""An uncanny story of a malevolent relic."" -The Brisbane Courier ""'The Monkey's Paw' is calculated to give thrills and tremors to the most indifferent reader. It is a semi-superstitious tale, written very much in the vein employed by Edgar Allen Poe in his weird masterpieces and shows splendid originality as well as virile force of expression."" -The Nassau Literary Magazine ""Intensely gruesome."" -The Evening Star ""Well calculated to give a nervous person 'the creeps.'"" -The Baltimore Sun ""A striking tale, 'The Monkey's Paw, ' reaches a high level. It appears to be a new version of an old story, 'The Three Wishes, ' but the transformation from the old to the new is so complete as to amount to genius. The tale is a masterpiece."" -The Bendigo Independent

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