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The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of W. W. Jacobs
Twenty-One Short Stories of the Strange and Unusual including 'The Monkey's Paw', 'The Brown Man's Servant', 'Sam's...
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Sprache: Englisch

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A special volume of tales of ghosts and horrors with an often nautical flavour
Rarely is a story so well-known and highly regarded that it eclipses the identity of the author who was responsible for creating it. That may be true however of the macabre short story 'The Monkey's Paw'. Written in 1902, it tells of a charmed disembodied monkey paw which has the power to grant three wishes, one of which, imprudently made, unleashes an abomination. This famous story's author was, of course, William Wymark (W. W.) Jacobs, a British writer and native the dockland area of Wapping in London's East End, whose main body of work was humorous rather than horrific and whose particular taste, perhaps understandably, was for fiction that featured ships and their sailors. Nevertheless, Jacobs penned a respectable collection of chilling supernatural short stories during his long career, In addition to the indispensable 'The Monkeys Paw', readers will discover 'In Mid-Atlantic', 'Over the Side', 'The Ghost of Jerry Bundler' (which was also performed on the stage), 'The Well', 'The Interruption' and many other stories to entertain and send a shiver down the spine of the reader.
Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket.
A special volume of tales of ghosts and horrors with an often nautical flavour
Rarely is a story so well-known and highly regarded that it eclipses the identity of the author who was responsible for creating it. That may be true however of the macabre short story 'The Monkey's Paw'. Written in 1902, it tells of a charmed disembodied monkey paw which has the power to grant three wishes, one of which, imprudently made, unleashes an abomination. This famous story's author was, of course, William Wymark (W. W.) Jacobs, a British writer and native the dockland area of Wapping in London's East End, whose main body of work was humorous rather than horrific and whose particular taste, perhaps understandably, was for fiction that featured ships and their sailors. Nevertheless, Jacobs penned a respectable collection of chilling supernatural short stories during his long career, In addition to the indispensable 'The Monkeys Paw', readers will discover 'In Mid-Atlantic', 'Over the Side', 'The Ghost of Jerry Bundler' (which was also performed on the stage), 'The Well', 'The Interruption' and many other stories to entertain and send a shiver down the spine of the reader.
Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket.
Über den Autor
S. T. Joshi is the author of such critical and biographical studies as The Weird Tale (1990), The Modern Weird Tale (2001), I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft (2010), and Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction (2012). He has prepared annotated editions of the work of H. P. Lovecraft, Lord Dunsany, Arthur Machen, Ambrose Bierce, and many other writers of weird fiction. He is the editor of the Lovecraft Annual and the Weird Fiction Review.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 232
Titelzusatz: Twenty-One Short Stories of the Strange and Unusual including 'The Monkey's Paw', 'The Brown Man's Servant', 'Sam's Ghost' and 'The Toll House'
ISBN-13: 9781782828150
ISBN-10: 178282815X
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Jacobs, W. W.
Hersteller: LEONAUR
Maße: 216 x 140 x 14 mm
Von/Mit: W. W. Jacobs
Erscheinungsdatum: 28.08.2019
Gewicht: 0,333 kg
preigu-id: 123671245
Über den Autor
S. T. Joshi is the author of such critical and biographical studies as The Weird Tale (1990), The Modern Weird Tale (2001), I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft (2010), and Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction (2012). He has prepared annotated editions of the work of H. P. Lovecraft, Lord Dunsany, Arthur Machen, Ambrose Bierce, and many other writers of weird fiction. He is the editor of the Lovecraft Annual and the Weird Fiction Review.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 232
Titelzusatz: Twenty-One Short Stories of the Strange and Unusual including 'The Monkey's Paw', 'The Brown Man's Servant', 'Sam's Ghost' and 'The Toll House'
ISBN-13: 9781782828150
ISBN-10: 178282815X
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Jacobs, W. W.
Hersteller: LEONAUR
Maße: 216 x 140 x 14 mm
Von/Mit: W. W. Jacobs
Erscheinungsdatum: 28.08.2019
Gewicht: 0,333 kg
preigu-id: 123671245
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