David Mitchell on The Monkey's Paw by WW Jacobs – short story podcast

Jan 5, 201800:30:54Arts

Cloud Atlas author David Mitchell introduces one of the great, early 20th century horror stories: WW Jacobs’s spine-tingling The Monkey’s Paw

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