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The Monkey's Paw–a Classic Tale of Terror by W.W. Jacobs
There are stories that whisper warnings, and then there are stories that lean in close and breathe those warnings right into your ear. This is one of the latter. It begins, as these things often do, with an ordinary family in an ordinary home… until a strange relic from a far-off land arrives and tilts the whole world off its axis. It’s a tale about wishes—how badly we want them, and how steep the bill can be when they’re granted.
W. W. Jacobs (1863–1943) was a British writer best known for spinning everyday moments into dark little traps. Though he wrote widely—humor, maritime tales…
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