M. P. Shiel
Matthew Phipps Shiel (1865–1947) was a prolific British writer of West Indian descent.
M. P. Shiel is remembered mostly for supernatural and scientific romances. His work was published as serials, novels, and as short stories. The Purple Cloud (1901) remains his most famous and often reprinted novel.
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Books by M. P. Shiel
Speculative Fiction Books
The House of Sounds and Others
2005 | science fiction, fantasy, horror, short stories
Prince Zaleski and Cummings King Monk
1977 | fantasy, short stories, thriller
Xelucha and Others
1975 | science fiction, fantasy, horror, short stories
The Best Short Stories of M. P. Shiel
1948 | fantasy, horror, short stories
The Works of M. P. Shiel
1948 | science fiction, fantasy, horror
The Pale Ape and Other Pulses
1911 | science fiction, short stories
The Last Miracle
1907 | science fiction
The Purple Cloud
1901 | science fiction
The Lord of the Sea
1901 | science fiction
Shapes in the Fire
1896 | fantasy, horror, short stories
Prince Zaleski
1895 | fantasy, short stories, thriller
Fictions and Others
The New King
1981
The Invisible Voices
1935 | short stories
This Above All
1933 | thriller
The Black Box
1930 | thriller
Here Comes the Lady
1928 | short stories
How the Old Woman Got Home
1927 | thriller
The Dragon
1913
The Isle of Lies
1909
The Yellow Wave
1905 | historical fiction
The Lost Viol
1905
The Weird o' It
1902
The Man-Stealers
1900
Contraband of War
1899 | mainstream
Cold Steel
1899