That epigraph talks about a madman who has been bitten by a tarantula.
The epigraph of this story is wrongly attributed to Arthur Murphy's All in the Wrong, though it's very similar to Floreville's lines from Frederick Reynolds' The Dramatist. That epigraph talks about a madman who has been bitten by a tarantula. The narrator of this work is confused as to why Jupe arrives at his place with brand new scythes and later on, it is revealed that Jupe is unable to differentiate between his right and left eyes after he is instructed to drop the title object through the eye of a (*) skull. Fortuitously, the narrator of this work extends his arms towards a fire as he caresses Wolf, which allows for a Death's Head to be revealed on a piece of parchment. The narrator's friend then decodes a cipher which leads him to Bessop's Castle, after which he discovers a huge tulip tree under which a treasure is buried. For 10 points, identify this short story wherein William Legrand discovers the lost treasure of Captain Kidd using a shiny metallic insect, written by Edgar Allen Poe.
The epigraph of this story is wrongly attributed to Arthur Murphy's All in the Wrong, though it's very similar to Floreville's lines from Frederick Reynolds' The Dramatist.
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