W. W. Jacobs (1863-1943) was an English author of short stories and novels best remembered for his The Monkey's Paw. His works are known for their humor. Marine life was a favorite subject of Jacobs. Some stories feature seamen and dockhands from the South Devon Wharf where Jacobs's father worked. Others reflect ordinary English homes where strange events unfold. Stories included in this collection are Deserted, The White Cat, A Golden Venture, Husbandry, The Changing Numbers and Captain Rogers. Jacobs's short stories are suitable for older youth and adults.

The perils of ambition lie at the heart of this double-bill of supernatural tales. In The Monkey's Paw a family is granted three wishes, all of which come true but in a macabre and unexpected way. In The Dark a successful and ambitious novelist meets his Mephistopheles and is dispatched to a sinister fate.

W. W. Jacobs (1863-1943) was an English author of short stories and novels best remembered for his The Monkey's Paw. His works are known for their humor. Marine life was a favorite subject of Jacobs. Some stories feature seamen and dockhands from the South Devon Wharf where Jacobs's father worked. Others reflect ordinary English homes where strange events unfold. Stories included in this collection are Deserted, The White Cat, A Golden Venture, Husbandry, The Changing Numbers and Captain Rogers. Jacobs's short stories are suitable for older youth and adults.

This early work by W. W. Jacobs was originally published in 1894 and we are now republishing it as part of our Cryptofiction Classics series. 'The Rival Beauties' is a short story about a mysterious creature of the deep. The Cryptofiction Classics series contains a collection of wonderful stories from some of the greatest authors in the genre, including Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Jack London. From its roots in cryptozoology, this genre features bizarre, fantastical, and often terrifying tales of mythical and legendary creatures. Whether it be giant...

Mr. and Mrs. Zhang live with their grown son Guisheng who works at a factory. One day an old friend of Mr. Zhang comes to visit the family after having spent years traveling in the mysterious hills of China's Yunnan Province. He tells the Zhang family of a monkey's paw that has magical powers to grant three wishes to the holder. Against his better judgment, he reluctantly gives the monkey paw to the Zhang family, along with a warning that the wishes come with a great price for trying to change ones fate...

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What is the price of greed? What is the cost of desire? The White family have come to possess a relic of supernatural power, a monkey's paw that grants three wishes....but at what price? How far must they journey down the path of terror to undo what they have done? Based on the short horror tale by W.W Jacobs, "The Monkey's Paw" is a story that will have you sitting on the very edge of your seat. This resource includes: -The full short screen play for "The Monkey's Paw," the gothic horror masterpiece that can be performed and filmed in the classroom. -The comic or graphic novel of "The...

William Wymark Jacobs was born on September 8th, 1863 in the Wapping district of London, England. Jacobs grew up near the docks, where his father was a wharf manager. The docks and river side would be a constant theme of his writing in years to come. Although surrounded by poverty, he received a formal education in London, first at a private prep school and later at the Birkbeck Literary and Scientific Institute. His working life began with a less than exciting clerical position at the Post Office Savings Bank. Jacobs put his imagination to good use writing short stories, sketches and...

Captain Wilson, skipper of the Seamiew, is besotted with a woman he has only observed from a distance. He sees a way to ease his way in to her affections and offers a reward to his crew to help him in his quest. The fun then starts as each of them tries to bag the reward for himself and leads to a lot of bother for each of them as they sail round the South Coast. This is classic British understated humour, that would translate marvellously to the screen. "The story of how Captain Wilson, master and Owner of the schooner Seamiew, won the hand of Miss Annis Gething is one which few people, to...

"What I want you to do," said Mr. George Wright, as he leaned towards the old sailor, "is to be an uncle to me." "Aye, aye," said the mystified Mr. Kemp, pausing with a mug of beer midway to his lips.