{"id":2618,"date":"2012-10-31T13:08:02","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T13:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.utc.edu\/archivist\/?p=2618"},"modified":"2013-09-13T16:20:38","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T16:20:38","slug":"the-monkeys-paw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/library\/2012\/10\/31\/the-monkeys-paw\/","title":{"rendered":"The Monkey&#8217;s Paw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/library\/files\/2013\/09\/special-collections-monkeys-paw.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2619\" title=\"Monkey's Paw\" alt=\"Monkey's Paw\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.utc.edu\/archivist\/files\/2012\/10\/monkeyspaw-e1351702998622-1024x672.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"328\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Happy Halloween!\u00a0 We would like to close out this ghoulish season with a ghastly little illustration by Barry Moser from <em>The Monkey&#8217;s Paw<\/em>&#8211;a short story in the compilation <em>Great Ghost Stories<\/em>.\u00a0 <em>The Monkey&#8217;s Paw<\/em> draws upon the classic scenario of a talisman that grants 3 wishes to the bearer.\u00a0 While 3 wishes sounds nice and all, horrible things happen in order for the wishes to be fulfilled.\u00a0 Want to hear how it ends?\u00a0 You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/12122\/12122-h\/12122-h.htm\" target=\"_blank\">read <em>The Monkey&#8217;s Paw<\/em> for free<\/a> online, courtesy of Project Gutenberg .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Halloween!\u00a0 We would like to close out this ghoulish season with a ghastly little illustration by Barry Moser from The Monkey&#8217;s Paw&#8211;a short story in the compilation Great Ghost Stories.\u00a0 The Monkey&#8217;s Paw draws upon the classic scenario of a talisman that grants 3 wishes to the bearer.\u00a0 While 3 wishes sounds nice and&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><span><a class=\"more-link button text\" href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/library\/2012\/10\/31\/the-monkeys-paw\/\"><span>Continue Reading <\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":414,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4922],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2618","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-special-collections","7":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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