Audiobook27 minutes
The Monkey's Paw
Written by W. W. Jacobs
Narrated by B. J. Harrison
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
When Sergeant Major Morris brings a mummified monkey’s paw to the White family, they embrace it as a morbid curiosity. When they learn that an old Fakir has enchanted the paw, they continue to treat the thing lightly. But the workings of the paw, once set in motion, cannot be undone, no matter what they try.
Author
W. W. Jacobs
William Wymark Jacobs was an English author of short stories and novels. Quite popular in his lifetime primarily for his amusing maritime tales of life along the London docks (many of them humorous as well as sardonic in tone). Today he is best known for a few short works of horror fiction.
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Reviews for The Monkey's Paw
Rating: 3.8815789407894736 out of 5 stars
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5What a great story ala the grass is always greener. Only 4 1/2 because it is a bit predictable!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5What a great story ala the grass is always greener. Only 4 1/2 because it is a bit predictable!
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Short story about 3 wishes and why you should be very careful what you wish for.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A cautionary tale about being careful about what we wish for. I've seen many adaptations of the story in pulp comics, movies, and television shows, but had never read the actual story they were all based on. Although a great short story, I think some of the adaptations did a better job of generating the horror of the final scenes. The short story pretty much leaves that to our own imagination. It's the reason I gave it 4 stars instead of 5.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Quite predictable
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I’ve always liked reading The Monkey’s Paw. It’s not your typical horror story and leaves the main cause of the readers uneasiness to their imagination.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The definitive tale of wishes gone wrong. Strong, but not as scary as I'd remembered it, somehow. (I didn't recall there being so much forethought about what state the son might be in when he returned.)
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5One of the top ten short stories I've ever read. The effect lingers long after the reading.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5One elderly couple and their son's story.They have not money but living happily.One day the husband's friend visit them, he said the story of Monkey's Paw brought back from India.Monkey's Paw is for us to fulfill three wishes.But at the same time,Monkey's Paw provide unhappy...I was drawn to this story.The story goes to the end without a stall, close the curtain, leaving a mystery.I like this story very much!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5There was one family.One day they got ' a monkey's paw ' from father's friend.' A monkey's paw' brought unhaoiness.And the family got unhapiness.This story is very horrible for me.I don't want to get ' a monkey's paw ',bbecause it was very dangerous.' A monkey paw ' scared me very much.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This story is about Monkey's paw.According to this book,monkey's paw has magic.But,we can wish only 3wishes,and ,instead of the wish,we lose important thing.The cast whose name is Mr.brownwanted to alot of money,but he lost his son.This story is not true,but I thinked that this story was very interesting.