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 Brown Man's Servant', 'Sam's Ghost' and 'The Toll House'

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 famous story's author was, of course, Willia...