7 best short stories by W. W. Jacobs

Jacobs is now remembered for his macabre tale "e;The Monkey's Paw."e; However, the majority of his output was humorous in tone. Michael Sadleir described Jacobs' fiction thus: "e;I wrote stories of three kinds, describing the misadventures of sailor-men ashore, celebrating the artful dodger of a slow-witted village, and such of the macabre."e;In the seven selected short stories the...