(originally published anonymously as “King Pest the First.” Published September 1835 in Southern Literary Messenger)
This story is a strange mix of humor and horror. Two sailors
drink more than they can afford and decide to make a run for it. Drunk as they
are, they end up in a cordoned-off part of town (it has become contaminated
with the plague). They enter an undertaker's shop, where a strange party of six
is busy getting drunk off of left behind-wine. There the two drunken sailors
get themselves into even more
trouble...
Summary written by Taylor Colegrove, May 2011. Title links to the full text of the story.
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