A descent into the Maelström by Edgar Allan Poe

A descent into the Maelström

Edgar Allan Poe

36 pages first pub 1841 (editions)

fiction classics horror short stories dark tense medium-paced
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Inspired by the Moskstraumen, it is couched as a story within a story, a tale told at the summit of a mountain climb in Lofoten, Norway. The story is told by an old man who reveals that he only appears old-"You suppose me a very old man," he says,...

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