Monkey, The
The story centers on a cymbal banging monkey toy that is possessed by an evil spirit. Every time the monkey claps its little cymbals together, a nearby living thing dies. The monkey is found in a family's attic in an old toy chest by a group of children, unknowing that their father was tormented by the monkey years ago, when it worked its lethal magic on his family and friends. The father takes the monkey and throws it in the lake in his backyard. At the end of the story is an excerpt of a newspaper article, which talks about hundreds of dead fish floating in the lake.
Notes
The X-Files episode Chinga, scripted by Stephen King, deals with a cursed doll and bears similarities to The Monkey. This doll, which deals out suffering in much the same way as the monkey, also finds itself sinking to the bottom of a lake at the end of the episode.
Characters
| Daisy | Uncle Will's dog |
| ?, Ida | Wife of Will |
| ?, Milly | Friend of Aunt Ida |
| ?, Will | Uncle of Hal Shelburn. Husband of Ida |
| Culligan, Amos | Owner of a car at the bottom of Crystal Lake |
| McCabe, Johnny | Friend of Hal Shelburn |
| McCaffery, Beulah | Babysitter of Bill and Hal Shelburn |
| Monkey, The | A toy of Hal Shelburn |
| Moriarty, Betsy | Wrote about hundreds of dead fish in Crystal Lake |
| Shelburn, Bill | Brother of Hal. Husband of Colette |
| Shelburn, Colette | Wife of Bill |
| Shelburn, Dennis | 12 year old son of Hal |
| Shelburn, Hal | Husband of Terry |
| Shelburn, Mr | Father of Hal and Bill |
| Shelburn, Mrs | Mother of Hal and Bill |
| Shelburn, Petey | 9 year old son of Hal |
| Shelburn, Terry | Wife of Hal |
| Silverman, Charlie | Friend of Bill Shelburn |
| Stukey, Mrs | Told Hal and Bill of their mother's death |
| Tremont, Sally | Shot and killed by Leonard White |
| White, Leonard | Boyfriend of Beulah McCaffery |
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