<P> Ten days after their son's death and a week after the funeral, Mrs. White, almost mad with grief, asks her husband to use the paw to wish Herbert back to life . Reluctantly, he does so . Shortly afterward there is a knock at the door . As Mrs. White fumbles at the locks in an attempt to open the door, Mr. White, who had to identify his son's mutilated body, and who knows the corpse has been buried for more than a week, realizes that the thing outside is not the son he knew and loved, and makes his third wish . </P> <P> The knocking suddenly stops . Mrs. White opens the door to find no one is there . </P> <P> The story has been adapted into other media many times, including: </P> <Ul> <Li> On 6 October 1903, a one - act play opened at London's Haymarket Theatre, starring Cyril Maude as Mr. White and Lena Ashwell as Mrs. White . </Li> <Li> A 1910 stage adaptation by Louis N. Parker . </Li> <Li> A 1915 film version, directed by Sidney Northcote and starring John Lawson . </Li> <Li> A 1923 film version, directed by Manning Haynes and starring Moore Marriott, Marie Ault, and Charles Ashton . </Li> <Li> A 17 July 1928 UK radio adaptation based on the 1910 play . </Li> <Li> A 1933 film version, screenplay by Graham John, directed by Wesley Ruggles (his last film with RKO), and starring C. Aubrey Smith, Ivan Simpson and Louise Carter . The film is now lost . </Li> <Li> A 28 May 1946 episode of the BBC Radio series Appointment with Fear . </Li> <Li> A 1948 film version, screenplay by Norman Lee and Barbara Toy . </Li> <Li> A 16 December 1958 episode of the UK radio series Thirty - Minute Theatre, starring Carleton Hobbes and Gladys Young . </Li> <Li> A 1961 film version called Espiritismo (released as Spiritism in the US), directed by Benito Alazraki and starring Nora Veyran, Jose Luis Jiminez, and Jorge Mondragon . </Li> <Li> "The Monkey's Paw--A Retelling", aired on TV on 19 April 1965 in season 3, episode 26 of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, starring Leif Erickson, Jane Wyatt, and Lee Majors . </Li> <Li> A 11 July 1980 episode of the CBC Radio series Nightfall . </Li> <Li> A 17 January 1988 BBC Radio adaptation by Patrick Galvin, presented as part of Fear on Four . It was rebroadcast individually as a Halloween special on 31 October 1993 . </Li> <Li> A one - act opera of the story was adapted by composer Stephen J. Grieco in 1996 and premiered at the Alice E. Bartlett Theatre . </Li> <Li> A 2004 adaptation as a radio play narrated by Christopher Lee in 2004 as part of the BBC radio drama series Christopher Lee's Fireside Tales . </Li> <Li> An operatic version of the story was adapted by composer Jonathan N. Kupper in 2009 . Excerpts of the piece were showcased as part of Opera Vista's new opera competition in Houston, Texas in 2010; and a full production was premiered by The Microscopic Opera Company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 2011 . </Li> <Li> A 2011 Australian radio adaptation on The Drama Pod . </Li> <Li> An opera adaptation composed by Brooke deRosa was premiered in October 2017 </Li> </Ul>

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