Dans The Beast in the Jungle, John Marcher et May Bartram se remémorent leur première rencontre. C'était à Naples. Mais ils se sont également rendus à Pompéi : "The incident of the thunderstorm that had raged round them with such violence as to drive them for refuge into an excavation – this incident had not occurred at the Palace of the Cæsars, but at Pompeii, on an occasion when they had been present there at an important find."