Listening to "The Monkey's Paw"

...on the H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast.  (You have to subscribe, at the evil rate of $6.66 a month.  Completely worth it.)

--Do you ever wonder what happened to the rest of the monkey? [...]
--I dunno.  I mean, if somebody had said, "Here's a monkey's paw, if you have this, you get three wishes," I'd be like, "You keep that.  I'm going to go rub a whole monkey and get like ninety wishes."
--I got a theory: I think that the monkey might have actually been some kind of wizard himself. [...]  Like, he was called Peanut the Monkey Wizard, and you'd give him a date, and he'd, like, cure your leprosy.
--You should write like a thousand-page backstory about Peanut the Monkey Wizard.