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Dialstone Lane, Classics To Go

In a small English town, a retired sea Captain comes to live who beguiles the natives with exaggerated tales, he come unstuck however when things get out of hand and an alleged map of buried treasure is stolen.

W. W. Jacobs

William Wymark Jacobs was an English author of short stories and novels. Quite popular in his lifetime primarily for his amusing maritime tales of life along the London docks (many of them humorous as well as sardonic in tone). Today he is best known for a few short works of horror fiction. One being "The Monkey's Paw"(published 1902). It has in its own right become a well-known and widely anthologized classic.

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