Another example, not nearly as well known as it deserves, is the 1972 low-budget horror film, Deathdream. This powerful tale has been adapted many times over the decades, for stage and radio, for television and movies, and for comics, and it has additionally inspired many stories and films that are not direct adaptations of these Stephen King’s 1983 novel Pet Semetary may be the most well known. When the door finally swings open, there is nothing there - “The street lamp flickering opposite shone on a quiet and deserted road.” While the ecstatic mother fumbles with the bolt, the terrified father, imagining the mangled horror outside, uses the paw for one last wish. A short time later, they hear a soft knocking at the door, knocking that quickly grows into a deafening fusillade as whatever it is that waits outside the bolted door furiously tries to gain entry. Some days later, after her boy has been buried, the grief-blinded mother realizes that they’ve only used one wish, and compels the appalled father to use the paw to wish their son alive again. The next day, his son is killed (“caught in the machinery”) at the factory where he works and in compensation, the company presents the family with…two hundred pounds. Not really believing that it will work, the father wishes for two hundred pounds to pay off his house. The paw supposedly grants three wishes - wishes that of course come at a price. Jacobs’s classic 1902 shocker, “The Monkey’s Paw,” in which a father acquires a magic talisman (the paw) from a soldier home from service in India. One of the most enduring tales in all horror literature is W.W.
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