Be careful what you wish for
Today I am writing to talk to you about the short story The Monkeys Paw.
I cannot imagine that you will not have seen, or heard of, one of the parodies of this story. Someone finds a severed monkey hand that grants wishes that all turn out to produce hopelessly ironic consequences. The adaptations and parodies cross almost all mediums from television to plays, films, comics and even cartoons. The Simpsons did a Halloween episode of the story, the turkey’s a little dry!
That aside, the original short story was penned by W.W Jacobs in 1902 and was published in the collection titled The Lady of the Barge.
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