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The Monkey's Paw (Heathen Short)

The Monkey's Paw (Heathen Short)

Jacobs, William Wymark

Paperback

Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction

ISBN13: 9798900750033
Publisher: Heathen Shorts
Published: Dec 24 2025
Pages: 28
Weight: 0.10
Height: 0.07 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

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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