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M.P. Shiel
Book List in Order: 37 titles
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The Rajah's Sapphire
- 1886
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Matthew Phipps Shiell was born in Montserrat in the West Indies on the 21st July 1865 and was believed to be illegitimate.He was educated at Harrison College, Barbados before moving to Englsand in 1885 to work as a teacher and translator. He soon be...
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Prince Zaleski
- 1895
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Can you doubt it? in the shape of a cloud, the pitch of a thrush's note, the nuance of a sea-shell you would find, had you only insight enough, inductive and deductive cunning enough, not only a meaning, but, I am convinced, a quite endless signi...
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Shapes in the Fire
- 1896
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Considered by some critics to be the most flamboyant works of the English decadent movement.
August Derleth said M.P. Shiel was ". . . the Grand Viscount of the Grotesque . . . [with a] refulgently fanciful imagination and magical command of...
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The Man-Stealers
- 1900
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Matthew Phipps Shiell was born in Montserrat in the West Indies on the 21st July 1865 and was believed to be illegitimate.He was educated at Harrison College, Barbados before moving to Englsand in 1885 to work as a teacher and translator. He soon be...
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The Lord of the Sea
- Jan-1901
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Matthew Phipps Shiell was born in Montserrat in the West Indies on the 21st July 1865 and was believed to be illegitimate.He was educated at Harrison College, Barbados before moving to Englsand in 1885 to work as a teacher and translator. He soon be...
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The Purple Cloud
- Jan-1901
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Matthew Phipps Shiell was born in Montserrat in the West Indies on the 21st July 1865 and was believed to be illegitimate.He was educated at Harrison College, Barbados before moving to Englsand in 1885 to work as a teacher and translator. He soon be...
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The Evil that Men Do
- 1904
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Matthew Phipps Shiell was born in Montserrat in the West Indies on the 21st July 1865 and was believed to be illegitimate.He was educated at Harrison College, Barbados before moving to Englsand in 1885 to work as a teacher and translator. He soon be...
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The Lost Viol
- 1905
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Matthew Phipps Shiell was born in Montserrat in the West Indies on the 21st July 1865 and was believed to be illegitimate.He was educated at Harrison College, Barbados before moving to Englsand in 1885 to work as a teacher and translator. He soon be...
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The Last Miracle
- Jan-1906
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Matthew Phipps Shiell was born in Montserrat in the West Indies on the 21st July 1865 and was believed to be illegitimate.He was educated at Harrison College, Barbados before moving to Englsand in 1885 to work as a teacher and translator. He soon be...
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Children of the Wind
- Jan-1923
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Matthew Phipps Shiell was born in Montserrat in the West Indies on the 21st July 1865 and was believed to be illegitimate.He was educated at Harrison College, Barbados before moving to Englsand in 1885 to work as a teacher and translator. He soon be...
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Dr. Krasinski's Secret
- Jan-1929
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Matthew Phipps Shiel (1865-1947) was a prolific British writer of West Indian descent, best known for supernatural and scientific romances. The Purple Cloud remains his most famous and often reprinted novel....
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Haunts & Horrors
- Mar-2012
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M. P. Shiel died in 1947, but his dark imagination continues to influence writers and readers of weird and supernatural fiction today. These twelve stories demonstrate his talent for descriptive prose and the breadth of his vivid imagination. Shiel w...
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Delphi Collected Works of M. P. Shiel
- Feb-2021
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The early twentieth century writer M. P. Shiel was a master of supernatural horror and science-fiction romances. ‘The Purple Cloud’ (1901), a dystopian, post-apocalyptic novel, is an important milestone in the development of science fiction liter...
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The Short Stories
- Dec-2023
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Matthew Phipps Shiell was born in Montserrat in the West Indies on the 21st July 1865 and was believed to be illegitimate.He was educated at Harrison College, Barbados before moving to Englsand in 1885 to work as a teacher and translator. He soon be...
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Vaila
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...
