It opens with the quote: "What ho! what ho! This fellow is dancing mad! He hath been bitten by the Tarantula!" and then introduces the main character, an impoverished man of H
It opens with the quote: "What ho! what ho! This fellow is dancing mad! He hath been bitten by the Tarantula!" and then introduces the main character, an impoverished man of Huguenot stock, who lives in Sullivan's island, near Fort Moultrie, and whose collection of entomological specimens "might have been envied by a Swammerdamm." A superstitious servant becomes excited at his latest find, a scarabaeus, which leads the narrator to remark that it looks like a death's head, which leads to the cryptographic obsession of William Legrand and a mad hunt for Captain Kidd's treasure, in, for ten points, what short story of Edgar Allan Poe?
It opens with the quote: "What ho! what ho! This fellow is dancing mad!