The most famous of English novelist and short story writer William Wymark Jacobs's works, "The Monkey's Paw," was first published by Harper's Monthly Magazine in the September 1902 edition.
Harper's is an American monthly publication founded in 1850 and published without interruption to the present day. Short fiction has been a feature of its subject matter since its first issue in June of 1850.
"The Monkey's Paw" was included in The Lady of the Barge, an anthology of Jacobs's short fiction also published in 1902.
Jacobs published work from 1896 (Many Cargoes) to 1926 (Sea Whispers), making "The Monkey's Paw" one of his earlier published works. Jacobs's work is generally humorous in tone, and though it is considered a horror story, a close reading of "The Monkey's Paw" reveals subtly ironic dark humor.
"The Monkey's Paw" by the English author W.W. Jacobs was originally published in the September 1902 edition of Harper's Magazine. The magazine, first published in 1850, is a monthly general-interest cultural and political review, the second-oldest continuously published monthly magazine in the United States. Fiction has always been an important part of the magazine's wide-ranging output, and Jacobs joins an illustrious group of authors published by Harper's over the years including Herman Melville, Henry James, Jack London, and Mark Twain.
Before the publication of "The Monkey's Paw" a number of other short stories by W.W. Jacobs had appeared in Harper's such as "Cupboard Love," "Captain Rogers," "In the Library," "A Mixed Proposal," and "A Golden Venture."
"The Monkey's Paw" was subsequently published in a collection of W.W. Jacobs' short stories called The Lady of the Barge. The book was published by Harper & Bros, the same company behind Harper's Magazine.
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