Edgar Allan Poe And The London Monster - Plot & Excerpts
A large breakfast was brought to my room at nine o’clock as requested, along with a copy of The Morning Chronicle. I scanned the newspaper while drinking very good English breakfast tea and eating sausage, toast and egg, which had a positive effect upon my constitution. There were some accounts of local crimes in the Chronicle’s pages that might inspire a tale or two. I was intrigued by the story of Edward Oxford, who was to be tried for high treason at the Old Bailey on the sixth of July. The eighteen-year-old public house waiter had discharged two pistols at Queen Victoria as she rode with Prince Albert in an open carriage on the tenth of June—the boy objected to the country being ruled by a woman. The uncanny tale of a criminal transported to New South Wales a decade ago for the theft of three linen handkerchiefs appealed to my imagination. He had recently returned to England a wealthy man and bought a mansion near his birthplace, much to the displeasure of certain persons of distinction.
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