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Which of The Monkeys Paw, and The Signalman did you prefire?

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Which of the two storeys did you prefer? Over the following coursework I am going to decide which of the two stories I prefer. The stories are The Monkeys Paw, and The Signalman. I am going to analyse features such as: unexpected things happening, a twist in the plot, mystery characters and coincidence. Most horror stories that I have read use the features that have been listed above. Personally I prefer the signalman. The Monkeys Paw is a horror story that involves a sergeant-major coming back from India. When we actually sergeant-major we find out he got a monkeys paw form a fakir in India, and the fakir made it grant 3 men 3 wishes. "He put a spell on it so that three separate men could each have three wishes from it". However each wish will bring a bad coincidence, as the fakir only did this to show that it's...

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