The Twilight Zone never aired an official adaptation of “The Monkey’s Paw,” but a couple times per season, Serling and his writers came up with an episode that illustrated how wishes can contain curses. In “A Nice Place To Visit,” a dead criminal discovers that living in a place where he can have anything he wants turns out to be his version of hell, not heaven. In “Mr. Bevis,” an iconoclast’s guardian angel shows him that he can only become a success if he loses his quirks—which the iconoclast refuses to do. In “The Man In The Bottle,” a man wishes for power and wakes up as Hitler. In “The Mind And The Matter,” a misanthrope creates a world filled with versions of himself, then realizes he hates himself. And on and on.

- Noel Murray, “It’s a cookbook, or something: 14 types of Twilight Zone endings”