The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of W. W. Jacobs: Twenty-One Short Stories of the Strange and Unusual including 'The Monkey's Paw', 'The B BISAC-POL040040 Unmasking Globalisation (2001)

Unmasking Globalisation (2001)

Who invented Wing Chun

He lives in Eugene

Don\'t delay the first step to your new

Author: Jens Peter Jacobsen

The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of W. W. Jacobs: Twenty-One Short Stories of the Strange and Unusual including 'The Monkey's Paw', 'The B BISAC-POL040040 Unmasking Globalisation (2001)A special volume of tales of ghosts and horrors with an often nautical flavour Rarely is a story so well known and highly regarded that it eclipses the identity of the author who was responsible for creating it. That may be true however of the macabre short story 'The Monkey's Paw'. Written in 1902, it tells of a charmed disembodied monkey paw which has the power to grant three wishes, one of which, imprudently made, unleashes an abomination. This