W.W. Jacobs

to i guess prime viewers arijit is the only one out of all four here who really like i'm and correct me if i'm wrong who really likes obsession and that is not a oh arijit how can you really like obsession but it's a statement of fact i am saying that you do really like it right

no i really like obsession because it's based on a very simple premise as in uh there's a short story we all know of ww jacobs's monkey spot it's like you have a i think monkey spot they get three wishes basically you know you think that you get a wish and you make that wish and it's not as good in fact it's definitely not good

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going to come back to and haunting and that and the fact that i think we were talking a little bit about that, Brian De Palma also made An Obsession, which is basically a remake of Vertigo.

Good old Jerry.

The Monkey's Paw, written by W.W. Jacob, 1902.

What's he hiding with those W's? One more.

He invented the internet.

Fast Asleep is dedicated to classic stories.

So it's time you heard the original from the English author W.W. Jacobs.

Novelist, playwright, and short story writer, particularly of horror and supernatural tales.

William Wymark Jacobs wrote, wrote the story you're about to hear and it was his most well-known and is still one of the most famous works of the macabre.

Born in London in 1863, William was the eldest of several children and all were quite young when their mother died suddenly.

Now, the family was not well off.

1879 brought him a job as a clerk in the Post Office Savings Bank.

1885 brought him the publication of his first short story.

He integrated elements of indigenous culture, specifically the lore of the Mi'kmaq people, to explain the resurrections.

And the article also introduces the heavy influence of W.W. Jacob's 1902 short story, The Monkey's Paw.

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The classic be careful what you wish for story where a cursed talisman grants three wishes cruelly.