"Be careful what you wish for, you may receive it."

✒ #WWJacobs, English novelist and short story writer, was #BOTD 8 September 1863. #Literature

On this day in 1863, author W.W. Jacobs was born.

The son of a wharf worker and a book illustrator, he is best known for sending chills down our spines with his classic horror short story, 'The Monkey's Paw'.

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