A toy windup monkey has a secret. Every time it hits its cymbals together somebody dies, and Hal Shelburn just can't get rid of it.

First Published in Gallery, November 1980.

Reprinted in:

• Skeleton Crew, Putnam 1985
• The Dark Descent, ed. David G. Hartwell, Tor 1987
• Modern Masters of Horror (1988)
• The Mammoth Book of Short Horror Novels, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1988 Nouvelles, Presses Pocket 1990
• The Dark Descent: The Medusa in the Shield, ed. David G. Hartwell, Grafton 1990
• The Dark Descent #2: The Medusa in the Shield, ed. David G. Hartwell, Tor 1991
• Horrorstory Volume Three, ed. Karl Edward Wagner, Underwood-Miller 1992