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In another sense, this type of story is similar to that of //Faust//, in which there is no way of asking for the desires sufficiently correct to prevent the devil from frustrating the one that asks for the desires. A work of an alone act based on the story was written by Louis N. Parker and interpreted by the first time in 1907. There were numerous film adaptations in the silent era, as well as a 1933 talkie, a 1948 British remake, a Nepalese adaptation called //Kagbeni// released in 2008 and more recent film versions. An updated version of the story was featured in nineteen of April in 1965 of //The Alfred Hitchcock// //Hour//. Other TV adaptations were created for //Suspense// in 1949 and in 1950, //Great Mysteries// in 1973 and //Great Ghost Tales// in 1961. Texas Radio Theatre Company recorded a radio play version by Tim Wardell and Richard Frohlich in front of a studio audience in 2003. Three opera versions have been created: one composed by Carlo Martelli in 1991, one composer by Stephen J. Grieco and premiered at Michael C. Rockefeller Arts Center in 1996 and one composer by Jonathan N. Kupper in 2008. The topic of the story was one of the inspirations for Stephen King in //Cementerio de Animales// film. //Cementerio de animales// (original title in English: Pet Cemetery) is a novel of terror of the American writer Stephen King, published by the first time in 1983. It was taken to the cinema in 1989. One of the histories in the Halloween´s special one of the third season of The Simpson has the same name (The monkey´s paw) and is clearly inspired by the story. Los Simpsons (in English, The Simpsons) is an American series of animation, in format of comedy, created by Matt Groening for Fox Broadcasting Company and emitted in several countries of the world. The series is a satire towards the American society who narrates the life and day after day of a family of middle class of this country (which members are Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie Simpson) that lives in a fictitious village called Springfield. In many versions of the story, the final desire of the person who has the monkey´s paw is never to have found the paw of that another person who does not please them finds the paw in his place. In XXX-Holic, a teacher takes the paw of the monkey of one of the prominent figures called Yuuko, though it was warned of not taking it. The paw gives him five desires but all with negative effects. XXX-Holic is a manga of the group CLAMP, which edits from time to time in Japan in the magazine Young Magazine since the year 2003. In Spain it is being published by Publishing Norm, for Mexico the publication is chargeable to Publishing Group Grapevine. In the book //Dios y Golem S.A.// by Norbert Wiener (father of the Cybernetics) treats himself this statement as a metaphor of the need to delimit the parameters on which the automatic systems must fulfill the human lenses. // Dios y Golem S.A. // was written in 1964 by Norbert Wiener. In this book expresses his theories on the learning of the machines, his reproduction and the place of the same ones in the society, in a background with religious references. The title summarizes the confrontation between these points of view. From a psychoanalytic of view it is necessary to interpret the story as a metaphor on the filicidio, the ancient aggressive trend of the parents towards the children. Arnaldo Rascovky analyzes the story in his book “The Filicidio”. The statement was included by Jorge Luis Borges, Bioy Casares and Silvina Ocampo in her famous Anthology of the fantastic literature. In Spain, with the title of “The claw” a television adjustment was realized inside the series //Historias para no dormir// led by Manuel Galiana, who provoked in many spectators the false recollection of the vision of Galiana putrid and full of worms, when such a image was never even a rolling. //Historias para no dormir// was a series of Spanish television directed by Narcissus Ibáñes Serrador and expressed from 1966 by Spanish Television.
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 * The monkey´s paw ** is a horror short story written by W. W. Jacobs. It was published in England in 1902. The story is based on the famous “setup” in which three wishes are granted. In the story, the paw of a dead monkey is a talisman that grants its possessor three wishes, but the wishes come with an enormous price for interfering with fate.
 * The Monkey´s Paw ** was adapted as a radio plays in 1980 as part of the CBC radio drama series //Nightfall//, available for free at iTunes, as part of the “Old Time Radio Thrillers” podcast.


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__Monkey's Paw: different versions__
The Monkey’s Paw is a short history which was written by W.W. Jacobs. This history was published in 1902. This is the original version about the Monkey’s Paw: a charm which gave three wishes. There are a lot of adaptations about The Monkey’s Paw. Those adaptations are different between us, but obviously, all the histories speak about magical things. Stephen King in 1963 wrote a horror novel called “Pet Cementery”. The author admitted that his novel was based in “The monkey’s paw”. “Pet Cementery” is about a family who moves to an imaginary town called “Ludlow”. One day, the family, Louis Rachel Gage and Ellie, visited a pet cementery; a place where kids bury their animals. On Halloween, died Church, the family’s cat. Louis and Jud, their neighbor, went to an old cementery to bury the cat. This cementery is very strange. The next day, the cat appeared in the house, he revived! However, he is very different. Jud told to Louis that a lot of animals were buried in this cementery and after that they revived. It was very strange. The next afternoon, Gage died. Rachel was very sad so she decided to visit her parents. Louis was alone, so he realized that he can bury his son in the special cementery, where people revived! Jud told Louis that people who revived were very different, but Louis didn’t pay attention to him, so he went to the cementery and buried his son. After that, Gage revived. But something was wrong: He was a demoniac kid. Gage killed Jud and Rachel, his mother. Louis decided to bury his wife in the special cementery. Another adaptation about The Monkey’s Paw is a comic called XXX-Holic. This is a Japanese comic which is been published since 2003 in “Young Magazine”, a Japanese magazine. [|Kimihiro Watanuki] is the main character. He was always looking a lot of ghost and monsters a he didn’t know what to do to prevent it. He went to a magical place where wishes were sold. Kimihiro didn’t have money so; he started to clean the place, and the owner, a very beautiful witch, gave to Kimihiro his wishes. In Spain in the 60’s Narcizo Ibañez created a television series. This television programs were about a horror histories, and where called “Histories not for dream”. One of them was “The Paw”, obviously, this chapter was the adaptation about The Monkeys Paw. I think that the most famous adaptation is “Pet Cementery”, the horror novel written by Stephen King, but there is another adaptation very famous: There is a Simpson’s chapter and there appeared the real Monkeys Paw! "Treehouse of Horror II" is the seventh episode of // [| The Simpsons] [|third season] //   //the second [|Simpsons Halloween episode] __.__// In this episode there was the “Monkey’s Paw”. It is a direct reference to “The monkey’s Paw”. In this episode, Homer buys a monkey's paw. This paw could grant wishes, but, at the same time, put a curse on those who had it. The first one asking for a wish is Maggie, obviously, nobody knows what she wishes! The next hour appear a Roll Royce in the door of the house! The second one asking for a wish is Bart, who wishes for the Simpsons to be rich and famous. Immediately, the family has a lot of many and they are recognized everywhere. However, people quickly start to hate Simpsons because they appeared everywhere!! As a consequence of this, Lisa wishes for World peace. After that, extraterrestrial life invades Springfield. Homer asks for the last wish. He wishes for a chicken’s sandwich. The chicken is very horrible, so Homer throws the Monkey’s paw and Ned Flanders takes it. The extraterrestrials go out! And Ned Flanders makes a lot of modifications in his house. Another piece of information very interesting is that in the “Antología de literatura fantástica” Jorge Luis Borges, Bioy Casares and Silvina Ocampo include the Monkey’s Paw! Daniela Butelman