Fun Facts and a Literary Cannibal

Interesting web page: http://www.allfunandgames.ca/facts/literature.shtml#f1733

"Edgar Allan Poe wrote a short story in 1838, "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket", in which three shipwreck survivors in an open boat kill and eat the fourth, a man named Richard Parker. In 1884, in the real world, three shipwreck survivors in an open boat killed and ate the fourth, whose name was Richard Parker."

Original Source:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0397013515?ie=UTF8&tag=alfuanga04-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0397013515


I read that Poe novel this summer--it would be nice if the site had gotten that fact correct (i.e. it's a novel, not a short story), even though the essence of the entry is accurate.  


It was pretty good--and with a spooky ending where (SPOILER ALERT though not really) the main character dies on my birthday (no--not my ACTUAL birthday--the date that becomes the anniversary of my birth years and years (100+) later).  I'm not t-h-a-t old...yet.


It's not too long.  Go ahead, read it! 
PDF of the text:  Narrative of A. Gordon Pym