Showing results for "The Maelstrom" in Literature & Fiction

Lieutenant Commander Matthew Reddy, along with the men and women of the U.S.S. Walker, are once again at war. Having sided with the peaceful Lemurians against the savage, reptilian Grik, they now find themselves scrambling to prepare for the attack that is sure to come, searching for resources to support their forces - even as they look for allies to join their struggle.

A monster is cruising the east coast. One who has stalked the United States for three decades, claiming countless victims. A chameleon who has found a fatal flaw in the forensic profiler's art. At the same time, someone is hunting down and eliminating serial killers with mechanical precision. A hunter with uncanny skill, limitless resources and lethal determination. With the serial killer's interest in her growing, and the hunter drawing closer to his ultimate prey, time is running out. To save what is most precious to her, Sarah will have to enter the maelstrom or face her darkest fears.

Caitlin has disappeared and someone has changed history. Lost in an alternate reality, Josh must discover who has disrupted the timeline and try to fix the continuum. But there's a problem. The Order has become divided over an old manuscript which describes the Maelstrom—a chaotic realm filled with ancient gods that exists outside of the timestream. One faction believes that Josh will be the key to unlocking its power, the other that he needs to die to save them from oblivion. Josh must find Caitlin and a way into the maelstrom, discover the author of the book and rewrite the prophecy.

Forced to pursue those who threaten their daughter's very existence, Athgar and Natalia must say goodbye to all they know. Barely surviving the journey, they finally arrive in Karslev, where nothing goes according to plan.

Huron Blackheart is the lord of the Red Corsairs, master of the lawless Maelstrom and its piratical denizens—but oathbreakers and renegades can seldom rely on the loyalty of their followers. With the galaxy thrown into turmoil by the return of Roboute Guilliman, the former Tyrant of Badab faces a renewed Imperium and fresh challengers emerging within his own ranks. Huron must call on every trick he knows to stay in control—and alive.

Logan Conner and Wholesale Slaughter won the day on Revelation, but the Starkad Supremacy doesn’t like failure. If they can’t beat Sparta on the battlefield, they’ll make them fold from within. It’s been over 20 years since the failed coup that killed the rightful Guardian and put Logan’s father on the throne of Sparta, but the same resentments and family rivalries still burn bright. It doesn’t take much for a dissatisfied political rival to be converted into an enemy agent.

It's one thing when you go up against crooks, gangsters, and businesses. It's a completely different situation when your enemy can send black-ops teams to end your existence. Jia and Erik need to uncover the truth - but is revealing the truth good for those around them? When their path leads into halls of power beyond their existing resources, will they be forced to end their chase, or will others support them?

The Cutter Stream colonies were at peace. If everybody behaved reasonably, that peace could last a thousand years. Allen Allenson had known war; it had made him peaceful and reasonable. He was far too experienced to believe the same was true of all his fellow colonists, however, let alone the government of the distant homeworld across the Bight.

When Jocelyn Graves left the Leaf Academy after her solo investigation, she was determined to return for another look. Only not by herself. The Gulf Coast Paranormal team accompanies Jocelyn as she faces down her fears at the haunted school. As they deploy for the paranormal investigation, ominous black feathers begin to appear and the team has to work hard at avoiding the entity's dangerous invitation. An evil ghost in a leather jacket targets one of the team members, and Sierra begins to hear ghostly music that leads her down a dangerous path. Will she be able to return to Joshua?

In Edgar Allan Poe’s gripping tale of survival and cosmic terror, A Descent into the Maelström plunges listeners into a tempest of elemental fury and existential dread. Set amidst the wild Norwegian coast, the story follows an old fisherman who recounts the nightmarish experience that turned his hair white and changed his life forever.

Der Meister des Schreckens und der Meister des Wortes. Drei Brüder, mutige Seemänner, fischen in der Nähe des Maelströms vor der norwegischen Küste und machen reichen Fang. Eines Tages macht ein Sturm ihr Schiff manövrierunfähig und der albtraumhafte Strudel droht sie zu verschlucken... Edgar Allan Poe, der Meister des Schreckens, zeigt den Menschen in seinem verzweifelten Ringen um das Leben selbst.

Edgar Allan Poe gilt als Ikone der amerikanischen Kurzgeschichte und Mitbegründer dieser literarischen Gattung. Die Elemente des Mysteriösen, Phantastischen, Unbegreiflichen, Grotesken, Rätselhaften, Transzendentalen schwingen immer als subtiles Klanggebilde in seine Erzählungen mit und regen aufgeschlossene Gemüter zum Nachdenken über all die unzähligen Dinge, die wir nicht imstande sind auch nur annähernd zu erklären, wohltuend an.

Uno de los recordados cuentos de Edgar Allan Poe agrupado dentro de sus cuentos de raciocinio o de temática marinera.

Wir waren auf dem Gipfel der höchsten Klippe angelangt. Einige Minuten schien der Alte zu erschöpft, um zu sprechen. „Vor drei Jahren noch“, sagte er schließlich, „hätte ich diesen Weg geradeso leicht und ohne Ermüdung gemacht wie der jüngste meiner Söhne; aber dann hatte ich ein Erlebnis, wie wohl noch kein Sterblicher vor mir hatte – wenigsten wie keiner es überlebte, um davon zu berichten – und die sechs Stunden tödlichen Entsetzens, die ich damals durchmachte, haben mich an Leib und Seele gebrochen.

Un gruppo di pescatori norvegesi con la loro barca si imbatte in una improvvisa e violenta tempesta. La piccola imbarcazione viene sospinta dai flutti delle onde al centro di un immenso vortice perenne presente in quella zona, chiamato Maelström. Per i pescatori è impossibile sfuggire a quel fenomeno naturale: una volta che si viene attirati verso il centro, infatti, si apre un abisso a forma di cono, che scaraventa la barca sul fondale con incredibile violenza.

Trapped within the Moskoe-Strom - the immense whirlpool of the Maelstrom - after a fierce storm at sea, three brothers struggle to escape before the spinning whirlpool grinds their ship on the rocks covering the ocean floor below.

A seafarer's story of when his ship was sucked into the terrifying maelström... a bottomless whirlpool of gigantic proportions and power... and how he survived to tell the tale.

Poe brings the reality of life and death to the forefront as he weaves a story within a story. When the narrator runs into an old man, the man begins to tell the tale of how he aged so rapidly. Only a day before, he was young - but lost his shipmates into a vicious maelstrom and the powers of the sea. After the initial terror of the event has subsided, he is able to examine the beauty and the power of the forces that can both provide life and take it away without note.

Edgar Allan Poe est l'un des grands auteurs du XIXème siècle. Archétype de l'écrivain maudit, trop génial pour être compris, il a mis dans son œuvre la tristesse, la solitude et le désespoir qui caractérisent tous les incompris. Ses "Histoires Extraordinaires" ne dérogent pas à cette règle, ni d’ailleurs à son goût prononcé pour la découverte scientifique, comme en témoigne "La descente dans le Maelström", sujet du présent enregistrement.

"Une descente dans le Maelstrom" est une nouvelle d'Edgar Allan Poe publiée en 1841. Un homme y raconte comment il a survécu à un maelstrom, un puissant tourbillon formé dans la mer. Cette histoire est classée parmi les nouvelles de "ratiocination" de Poe et on peut y voir une forme précoce de science-fiction.