![]() Stephen King's bestselling novel Pet Sematary, the nightmare-inducing story of a cemetery that has the power to bring animals (and maybe even people) back to life, is directly inspired by Jacobs' story. "The Monkey's Paw" may be less well known to modern readers than some of the stories it inspired. One Thousand and One Nights is most famous for the character of Aladdin, which you probably know in its fabulously Disney-fied form. Arabian Nights), a very famous collection of stories from the Middle East and South Asia. "The Monkey's Paw" is an adaptation of another story of three wishes gone wrong, from One Thousand and One Nights (a.k.a. Even the most famous author of all – Big Willy Shakespeare – borrowed almost all of his ideas from other stories and changed them around to create his masterpieces. Most writers are influenced and inspired by the books they themselves read. It was also adapted by another master of horror and suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, for an episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. Over the next century it would find its way into dozens of anthologies and be required reading for thousands of school kids. That same year it was also published in a collection of Jacobs's short stories called Our Lady of the Barge. Jacobs managed to make a good living writing novels and short stories, but he's most famous for this one, written in 1902 and first published in Harper's magazine. You know, read while sitting around a campfire, or on a dark and story night, when you're all alone. We warn you, this is a scary story, so you might want to do it to the max. " The Monkey's Paw" is the story of the White family and what happens to them when they get a mystical, magical monkey's paw that has the power to grant three wishes. ![]()
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