Edgar Allan Poe's infamous poem The Raven was inspired by a real bird, a mischievous raven kept as a pet by Charles Dickens. Barnaby Rudge ...| David Castleton Blog - The Serpent's Pen
A colony of ferocious feral pigs were once rumoured to inhabit the sewers under Hampstead. A terror to 'toshers' - men who scavenged sewers ..| David Castleton Blog - The Serpent's Pen