I thought it might be time to escape a little. While “The Monkey’s Paw” is a horror story and his most famous piece, “The Weaker Vessel” is a clever and humorous story. As a matter of fact, most of his body of work is humorous, except “The Monkey’s Paw”. It is said that Jacobs’ stories were elegant, emotional, and disturbing. And “his characters are almost solely middle or lower-middle class, and their blue-collared anxieties, ambitions, and resentment stoke the emotional furnaces that propel his writings.” Enjoy!
Montgomery is most well known for her “Anne” books – beginning with “Anne of Green Gables”. It was said she wrote “stories of the...
Here is another great story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Did you know… he was named after his famous second cousin who penned The Star...
Not the most cheerful topics. I’ve received feedback from a few of my listeners that these stories are very grim. Yes, I guess they...