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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. One being "The Monkey's Paw"(published 1902). It has in its own right become a well-known and widely anthologized classic.
~Literary Works
Many Cargoes (1896) The Skipper's Wooing (1897) Sea Urchins (1898) /aka More Cargoes (US) (1898) A Master of Craft (1900) The Monkey's Paw (1902) The Toll House (1902) Light Freights (1901) At Sunwich Port (1902) The Barge (1902) Odd Craft (1903) : contains The Money Box, basis of Laurel and Hardy film Our Relations (1935) Dialstone Lane (1902) Captain's All (1905) Short Cruises (1907) Salthaven (1908) Sailors' Knots (1909) The Toll House (1909) Ship's Company (1911) Night Watches (1914) The Castaways (1916) Deep Waters (1919) Sea Whispers (1926)