eternal source of fascination that appear continually through literature and urban legends.One, which looks like “a Florentine barn on a canal boat” was used as a fitting setting for American humorist John Kendrick Bangs’ fantasy novel A Houseboat on the Styx. It is a gathering place for a series of dead celebrities who are spending their afterlife travelling on the Styx, the river that circles the underworld in Greek mythology. Nero, apparently, is a dab hand at pool.
