A Descent into the Maelstrom

By Edgar Allan Poe

Subjects: fiction, Ratiocination, mountaineering, embedded narrative, vortex, whirlpools

Description: "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.