"The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR! Today's story is a true horror classic: 'The Monkey's Paw' by W.W. Jacobs. An elderly couple come into possession of a magic talisman that may have the power to change their fortune. It does... but for the worse. 'EnCrypted: The Classic Horror Podcast' brings classic short stories in the horror/supernatural/weird tradition to life (or back from the dead!) through compelling spoken word, music and sound FX.  If you like what I do, please consider subscribing and supporting. Thank you for listening.  Please support my work: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/encryptedpod https://ko-fi.com/encryptedpodcast Listen to the EnCrypted podcast on: Spotify Amazon Music RadioPublic PocketCasts  Anchor  Google Podcasts  RSS and many other podcast platforms!! Find and follow on social media: https://linktr.ee/encryptedpod  About the episode: Theme music:  The Black Waltz by Scott Buckley | www.scottbuckley.com.au Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Incidental music: I’m Not What I Thought by Darren Curtis Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/ Other music sourced at: https://www.chosic.com/ Sound effect attributions: https://freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/sounds/212443/ * https://freesound.org/people/jack.cooper/sounds/455885/ * https://freesound.org/people/Bosk1/sounds/217186/ * https://freesound.org/people/EminYILDIRIM/sounds/544634/ * https://freesound.org/people/Joozz/sounds/531952/ * https://freesound.org/people/shewbox/sounds/30689/ * https://freesound.org/people/Vortichez/sounds/432688/ * https://freesound.org/people/DBKEEBLER/sounds/403677/ * *https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Other public domain sound effects sourced at: https://freesound.org/ The recording was created using Bandlab and shared via Anchor. The podcast and YouTube video art contains elements from 'The Monkey's Paw' by Andrew Pilling used with attribution: Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-ND 2.0) ) The recording was created using Bandlab and shared via Anchor. Thanks for listening. Like, comment, share, subscribe...etc.