W.W. Jacobs

William Wymark "W. W." Jacobs (1863 - 1943) was an English author of short stories and novels. Although much of his work was humorous, he is most famous for his horror story "The Monkey's Paw".Jacobs's first volume, Many Cargoes (1896), had an immediate success and was followed by two others, The Skipper's Wooing (1897) and Sea Urchins (1898). "The Monkey's Paw" (first published in The Lady of the Barge, 1902), a tale of superstition and terror unfolding within a realistic, Dickensian setting of domestic warmth and coziness, is a felicitous example of Jacobs's ability to combine everyday life and gentle humour with exotic adventure and dread.