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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

by Edgar Allan Poe

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At the Mountains of Madness

Short Story · 1936

InfluenceHIGH

Lovecraft's Antarctic expedition names Poe's novel repeatedly, and takes from it the cry "Tekeli-li!", which the shoggoths make. The narrator suggests Poe knew something of what lies at the pole: Mountains of Madness is written as the continuation of Pym's unfinished voyage.

Life of Pi

Book · 2001

InfluenceLOW

Yann Martel named the tiger Richard Parker after a character in Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, a shipwrecked sailor who is eaten by his fellow survivors.

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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

The novel is set between 1827 and 1828 and relates the tale of the young Arthur Gordon Pym, who stows away aboard a whaler called the Grampus. Various adventures and misadventures befall Pym, including shipwreck, mutiny, and cannibalism, before he is saved by the crew of the Jane Guy. Aboard this vessel, Pym and a sailor named Dirk Peters continue their adventures farther south. Docking on land, they encounter hostile, black-skinned natives before escaping back to the ocean. The novel ends abruptly as Pym and Peters continue toward the South Pole.