The story has been adapted into other media many times, including:
- 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.[5]
- A 1907 British stage adaptation by Louis N. Parker starred John Lawson.[4][6]
- A 1915 British film version was directed by Sidney Northcote and starred John Lawson (who was in the 1907 stage play).[7]
- A 1919 British silent film (director unknown) is known to have been made but is now considered lost.[8]
- The Monkey's Paw (1923 film) was a British film directed by Manning Haynes and starred Moore Marriott, Marie Ault, and Charles Ashton.[7]
- A 17 July 1928 British radio adaptation was based on the 1907 play.[6]
- The Monkey's Paw (1933 film), an American film with screenplay by Graham John and directed by Wesley Ruggles (his last film with RKO), starred C. Aubrey Smith, Ivan Simpson, and Louise Carter. The film was considered lost[9] until pictures from it were posted online in 2016; the existing copy is dubbed in French.[10]
- A 28 May 1946 episode of the BBC Radio series Appointment with Fear.[6]
- The Monkey's Paw (1948 film), a British film with screenplay by Norman Lee and Barbara Toy.[11]
- A 16 December 1958 episode of the British radio series Thirty-Minute Theatre, starring Carleton Hobbs and Gladys Young.[6]
- A 1961 Mexican film version called Espiritismo (released as Spiritism in the US), directed by Benito Alazraki and starring Nora Veyran, Jose Luis Jiminez, and Jorge Mondragon.[7]
- "The Monkey's Paw – A Retelling" aired on American television on 19 April 1965 in season 3, episode 26, of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, starring Leif Erickson, Jane Wyatt, and Lee Majors.[12]
- An episode of the 1970's British television series Orson Welles Great Mysteries.[13]
- An 11 July 1980 episode of the Canadian CBC Radio series Nightfall.[6]
- The 1983 novel, Pet Sematary, by American author Stephen King, was reportedly inspired by the story.[14]
- A 17 January 1988 BBC Radio adaptation by Patrick Galvin, presented as part of Fear on Four; rebroadcast individually as a Halloween special on 31 October 1993.[6]
- A half-hour televised special broadcast on the UK's Channel 4 in 1988, directed by Andrew Barker and starring Alex McAvoy and Patricia Leslie.[15]
- A 1993 episode named Taveez of the Indian television series The Zee Horror Show.[6]
- 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.[16]
- A 2008 Nepali film, Kagbeni, is a loose adaptation of the story.[17]
- A 2013 American film version with screenplay by Macon Blair, and directed by Brett Simmons.[18]
- A 2017 American opera, The Monkey's Paw, by composer Brooke deRosa, and produced by Pacific Opera Project.[19]
