Monday 9 June 2014

Where was "The Monkey's Paw" first published?

"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,...

"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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