actresses were auditioned and Jacob was said to be impressed by Paddy Naismith who was chosen to play the lead role. W. W. Jacobs died on 1 September 1943 at Hornsey Lane, Islington, London, at the age of 79. An obituary in The Times (2 September 1943) described him as "quiet, gentle and modest... not fond of large functions and crowds." Ian Hay remarked, "He invented an entirely new form of humorous narrative. Its outstanding characteristics were compression and understatement." Bibliography Many Cargoes, 1896 The Skipper's Wooing and The Brown Man's Servant, 1897 (novel and novella) More Cargoes, 1897 Sea Urchins, 1898 (also known as More Cargoes, US) A Master of Craft, 1900 Light Freights, 1901 The Lady of the Barge, 1902 "The Monkey's Paw", "The Lady of the Barge", "Bill's Paper Chase", "The Well", "Cupboard Love", "In the Library", "Captain Rogers", "A Tiger's Skin", "A Mixed Proposal", "An Adulteration Act", "A Golden Venture", "Three at Table" Dialstone Lane, 1902 At Sunwich Port, 1902 Odd Craft, 1903 (contains "The Money Box") Captains All, 1905 Short Cruises, 1907 Salthaven, 1908 Sailors' Knots, 1909 (contains "The Toll House") Ship's Company, 1911 Night Watches, 1914 The Castaways, 1916 Deep Waters, 1919 Sea Whispers, 1926 Short stories "Mrs Bunker's Chaperon", Henry's Christmas Annual, 1895 "Contraband of War", The Idler Magazine, February 1896 "In Borrowed Plumes", The Minster Magazine, February 1896 "A Benefit Performance", To-Day, August 1896 "A Love Passage", The Idler Magazine, February 1896 "The Brown Man's Servant", Pearson's Magazine, December 1896 "Wapping-on-Thames", Windsor Magazine, June 1897 "Rule of Three", The Graphic, 1 July 1897 "The Skipper's Wooing", Windsor Magazine, July 1897 Film adaptations 1922 A Master of Craft 1936 Our Relations, a Laurel and Hardy feature film with a "suggested by" credit to Jacobs's "The Money Box" 1937 Beauty and the Barge 1955 Footsteps in the Fog, from the short story "The Interruption" 2013 The Monkey's Paw, and versions in 1915, 1923, 1933 and 1948 See also List of adaptations of The Monkey's Paw Patrick Wymark Olwen Wymark References External links W. W. Jacobs Collection at the Harry Ransom Center William Wymark Jacobs letters at Columbia University Works by W. W. Jacobs, at Hathi Trust The Monkey's Paw can be read online at American Literature The Toll House" Full text. 1863 births 1943 deaths Writers from London Alumni of Birkbeck, University of London People from Loughton People from Wapping Victorian novelists 19th-century English