A Descent into the Maelstrom
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"A Descent into the Maelstrom" is a short story by one of the masters of the genre, Edgar Allan Poe.
It is couched as a story within a story, a tale told at the summit of a mountain climb, and deals with a shipping accident in which the narrator relates how he was sucked into a massive whirlpool.
External link
- The full text of the story from WikiSource (http://wikisource.org/wiki/A_Descent_Into_The_Maelstrom)