But her husband was on his hands and knees groping wildly on the floor in search of the paw. If he could only find it before the thing outside got in. A perfect fusillade of knocks reverberated through the house, and he heard the scraping of a chair as his wife put it down in the passage against the door. He heard the creaking of the bolt as it came slowly back, and at the same moment, he found the monkey's paw, and frantically breathed his third and last wish.

"Monkey's paw?" said Mrs. White curiously.

"of all the beastly, slushy, out-of-the-way places to live in, this is the worst. Pathway's a bog, and the road's a torrent.

Without, the night was cold and wet, but in the small parlor of Lakesnam Villa the blinds were drawn and the fire burned brightly. Father and son were at chess, the former, who possessed ideas about the game involving radical changes, putting his king into such sharp and unnecessary perils that it even provoked comment from the whitehaired old lady knitting placidly by the fire.

There was a great deal of fussing to be done before Mr. Summers declared the lottery open. There were the lists to make up--of heads of families. heads of households in each family. members of each household in each family.

The people had done it so many times that they only half listened to the directions

"Seventy-seventh year I been in the lottery," Old Man Warner said as he went through the crowd. "Seventy-seventh time."

"Be a good sport, Tessie." Mrs. Delacroix called, and Mrs. Graves said, "All of us took the same chance."

A melancholy town where we never smile.

Love forever love is free

My dreams, they've got to kiss, because I don't get sleep, no.

You've got a new horizon It's ephemeral style.

So all you fill the streets it's appealing to see You wont get out the county, 'cos you're bad and free

We're all chained to the rhythm

Are we crazy?

Just what a film fan wants to see: a movie, surrounded by a bunch of Bozos.

The September event is already attracting hilariously snarky comments on the theater’s Facebook page. 

“Be prepared for the backlash from the non-clown crowd that is angry that you’re creating this ‘safe viewing space’ for all the ‘snowflake clowns,’”