Macabre monkey puzzle.(Column)

The Daily Mail (London, England) | August 17, 2006 | Copyright

QUESTION In the book The Monkey's Paw by W. W. Jacobs, what were the three wishes granted and later regretted?

I AM an English teacher in Daventry, Northants, and have just completed a study of W.W. Jacobs' The Monkey Paw with a Year Eight class.

The pupils looked at the techniques Jacobs used to scare his readers, and wrote essays on whether modern readers would find this story as frightening as the Victorians did.

The story concerns an elderly couple who are given a magical monkey's paw by a visitor, who tells them that it can grant someone ...

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