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W. W. Jacobs

About

William Wymark Jacobs was an English author of short fiction and drama. His best remembered story is "The Monkey's Paw". He was born in Wapping, London, on 8 September 1863, the son of William Gage Jacobs and his wife Sophia, née Wymark. His father ran the South Devon wharf at Lower East. William and his siblings were still young when their mother died. Their father then married his housekeeper and had seven more children. Jacobs attended a private London school before Birkbeck College, where he befriended William Pett Ridgcap.

Books

HALLOWEEN COLLECTION TREAT
HALLOWEEN COLLECTION TREAT
Arthur Conan Doyle, Charles Dickens, Robert E. Howard, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Charlotte Brontë, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jack London, Henry James, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, H. G. Wells, Lafcadio Hearn, H. P. Lovecraft, Daniel Defoe, Algernon Blackwood, Rudyard Kipling, E. F. Benson, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Oscar Wilde, Francis Marion Crawford, Guy de Maupassant, Mary Shelley, Wilkie Collins, George MacDonald, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Bram Stoker, William Harrison Ainsworth, Anatole France, W. W. Jacobs, Thomas Hardy, Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Buchan, Edith Nesbit, William Makepeace Thackeray, Marjorie Bowen, J. K. Huysmans, Thomas De Quincey, Elizabeth Gaskell, Fiona Macleod, Adelbert von Chamisso, M. R. James, Arthur Machen, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Hope Hodgson, Robert W. Chambers, Jerome K. Jerome, Nikolai Gogol, Ambrose Bierce, Frederick Marryat, Louis Tracy, M. P. Shiel, Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Jane Austen, Emily Brontë, Louisa M. Alcott, Horace Walpole, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Gaston Leroux, Washington Irving, John Meade Falkner, Pliny the Younger, Andrew Jackson Davis, John Kendrick Bangs, Edward Bellamy, Fred M. White, Cleveland Moffett, David Lindsay, Florence Marryat, James Malcolm Rymer, Thomas Love Peacock, Fergus Hume, Helena Blavatsky, Charles Brockden Brown, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Amelia B. Edwards, Sax Rohmer, Grant Allen, Théophile Gautier, Richard Marsh, Fitz-James O'Brien, Catherine Crowe, Émile Erckmann, Alexandre Chatrian, Pedro De Alarçon, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Sabine Baring-Gould, Thomas Peckett Prest, Wilhelm Hauff, William F. Harvey, Villiers de l'Isle Adam, William Archer, Katherine Rickford, Ralph Adams Cram, Leopold Kompert, Vincent O'Sullivan, Brander Matthews, Ellis Parker Butler, A. T. Quiller-Couch, William T. Stead, Nizida, Walter F. Prince, Gambier Bolton, Frank R. Stockton, Bithia Mary Croker, Leonard Kip, Catherine L. Pirkis, Richard Le Gallienne, William Thomas Beckford, Ann Radcliffe, John William Polidori, Walter Hubbell, George W. M. Reynolds, Theodor Storm, Thomas Mayne Reid, H. H. Munro, George Sylvester Viereck, Chester Bailey Fernald, Charles Maturin, Guy Boothby, J. Meade Falkner, Marie Corelli, John R. Musick, Gertrude Atherton, Eleanor M. Ingram, Mrs. Margaret Oliphant, Olivia Howard Dunbar, S. Mukerji