The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

In 1838 Edgar Allan Poe published a grim tale called "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket."

In it three survivors of a shipwreck, dying of thirst and starvation, kill and eat their companion, Richard Parker, who lost when they drew lots.

In 1884 three survivors of a shipwreck where tried for the murder of a fourth. Adrift, and and facing starvation, they they had killed and eaten their companion, a cabin boy named Richard Parker.