The Monkey

**Aarny** · March 29th, 2010

Am I the only one that didn't find it scary at all? :P

**gniknehpets** · March 29th, 2010

I found a toy monkey with cymbals in an antique store and gave it to my sister. She refused for years to take it out of the box. It sits on a shelf with the rest of her King collection. I don't even like looking at the picture on the box!

**Bryan James** · March 29th, 2010

I've read "The Monkey" a few times...and the book is my current "morning porcelain throne" reader, so I'll get to it again. It never really impressed me as much as some of the other stories, but I think it was a bigass meta-allegoraphory for something that I wasn't ready to accept.

Maybe next time I'll get it.

~BJS

**GNTLGNT** · March 29th, 2010

I can't go near an inland body of water without listening for those damn cymbals!

**Dishsoaps** · July 27th, 2010

I just finished "The Monkey" and thought it was kinda frightening. Every kid grows up scared of something and hopes to never see it again, and in this case the monkey continues to come back. Well written and hopefully we never hear about that monkey again lol

**Seb Shaw** · December 20th, 2010

Enjoyed this short. It was creepy in parts too. Once again because the characters are so rich in detail you can relate to them in some way or another

**Oy4ever** · May 18th, 2011

might sound weird but this story freaked me out the most!

**CaseyM** · July 25th, 2011

I thought this story was good, but not particularly scary. I do agree with other people that it would make a good movie though. They could build up the suspense which I think would work well. Now I wonder where the monkey came from originally...

**amanda1812** · July 25th, 2011

I've always thought those monkeys were seriously sinister - even as a small child they freaked me out - so this story really struck a chord with me. It brought back the feeling of childhood fears and scared the brown and smelly out of me

**friend of Oye** · July 26th, 2011

I'm an antique toy collector. Recently I purchased a wind up monkey with the cymbals, in the original box, at a swap meep in the deep piney woods of east Texas. On the box it states "made with real fur". Makes me wonder, what kind of animal did they kill to get the fur. I might post a youtube vid of the lil bugger slapping his cymbals.