![]() ![]() A friend of the family, Sergeant-Major Morris, originally a part of the British Armed Forces in India, leaves them with the ‘monkey’s paw’, conveying its mysterious and miraculous powers to grant ‘three wishes’. The paw of a dead monkey is a symbolic talisman that its possessor ‘three wishes’ but they come with an enormous price or interfering with fate. The story is basically set upon three wishes’ that are granted in it. The Monkey’s Paw is a horror short story of W.W. White two hundred pounds paid as compensation for Herbert’s death. The visitorĪ representative who came from ‘Maw and Meggins’ to inform the White parents of Herbert’s death news. Post manĪ post man who came to make a delivery and the person attracted Mrs. The Whites got the monkey’s paw from this very person. ![]() He is described in the story as a ‘tall, burly man, beady of eye and rubicund of visage.’ He was an adventure lover who preferred talking about his experience that he faced abroad. He worked at a company named ‘Maw and Meggins’. Jacobs’s fictional works were much appreciated by some famous literary figures like Henry James, G. Some of his stories were published in the satirical magazines the Idler and Today during the 1980’s. But he is exclusively popular till now for his macabre tales, ‘ The Monkey’s Paw‘ and ‘ The Toll House‘. ![]() He chose marine life in many of his stories. Sea Urchins and Sailor’s Knots were other short story collections published in 1893 and in 1909 respectively. Jacobs’s famous collection of short stories was The Lady of the Barge, published in 1902, it included ‘ The Monkey’s Paw‘. ![]()
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