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"A Descent into the Maelström" is an 1841 short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. In the tale, a man recounts how he survived a shipwreck and a whirlpool . It has been grouped with Poe's tales of ratiocination and also labeled an early form of science fiction .
A Descent into the Maelström, an 1841 short story by Edgar Allan Poe; Maelstrom (Timms novel), a novel by E.V. Timms; Maelstrom, a 2001 novel by Peter Watts; Maelstrom, a 2006 novel in the Petaybee universe by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough; Maelstrom, a 2017 novel by Yael Inokai
Into the Maelstrom or Descent Into the Maelstrom may refer to: "A Descent into the Maelström", a short story by Edgar Allan Poe Into the Maelstrom (Dungeons & Dragons) Into the Maelstrom, a 2005 sci-fi film directed by Peter Sullivan, part of the 48 Hour Film Project with Eric Etebari
A Descent into the Maelström; The Devil in the Belfry; The Duc de L'Omelette; E. Eleonora (short story) F. The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar; The Fall of the ...
Illustration for Edgar Allan Poe's story "Descent into the Maelström" by Harry Clarke (1889–1931), published in 1919. Moskstraumen was described in the 13th century in the Old Norse poems Edda and remained an attractive subject for painters and writers, including Edgar Allan Poe, Walter Moers, and Jules Verne. [4]
The plot follows an unnamed narrator at sea who finds himself in a series of harrowing circumstances. As he nears his own disastrous death while his ship drives ever southward, he writes an "MS.", or manuscript, telling of his adventures which he casts into the sea. Some critics believe the story was meant as a satire of typical sea tales.
Maelstrom is the son of Phaeder, an Inhuman scientist banished from their city of Attilan for attempting cloning to increase Inhuman population numbers. [2] Phaeder then lives among the Deviants, and bred with a Deviant female named Morga who gave birth to Maelstrom. With his father's tutoring, Maelstrom became a brilliant geneticist.
The first is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe named "A Descent into the Maelström" (1841). The second is Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870), a novel by Jules Verne . At the end of this novel, Captain Nemo seems to commit suicide, sending his Nautilus submarine into the Maelstrom (although in Verne's sequel Nemo and the Nautilus were ...