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M P Shiel
"The Last Miracle" by M. P. Shiel is a mesmerizing work of speculative fiction that delves into the realms of the supernatural and the unknown. As a master of the…
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Enter a world of post-apocalyptic intrigue and existential dread with M. P. Shiel's chilling masterpiece, "The Purple Cloud." In this gripping tale of survival and despair, Shiel paints a haunting…
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And Including About Myself By M. P. Shiel.
As Wilde and Stevenson explored the duality of human nature in Jekyll and Hyde and The Picture of Dorian Gray, Shiel gave two voices to Adam Jeffson, the hero of…
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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…
This volume contains Matthew Phipps Shiel’s 1906 novel, “The Last Miracle.” This book is recommended for fans of supernatural and science fiction, and is a must-have for collectors of Shiel’s…
M. P. Shiel
This work is part of a relatively new literary genre, the British speculative future war novel. Interpretated in many ways - fin-de-siecle, technophobia, critiques of British imperialism - they anticipated…
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books…
When a mysterious and powerful figure known only as the Lord of the Sea begins to terrorize the world's oceans, it falls to the intrepid heroes Captain Kettle and his…
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive…
… colossal … - H.G. Wells … a flaming genius … - Hugh Walpole … amazing ideas, wild originality, genius … - J.B. Priestley
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…
I asked with what motives, and in what particulars, the malice of his mother and aunt manifested itself. He replied that there was, he believed, no specific motive, but only…
Do you know much about the philosophy of the hypnotic trance? That was the relation between us–hypnotist and subject. She had been under another man before my time, suffered from…
‘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…
In the Calle Las Gabias-one of those by-streets of Lisbon below St. Catherine-there occurred one New Year a little event in the Synagogue there worth a mention in this history…
Bewildered, frantic, he wandered along a nightmare trail, in one last, strange, terrible search through a silent planet----to find a single living soul---or die!
"If now a swell from the Deep has swept over this planetary ship of earth, and I, who alone chanced to find myself in the furthest stern, as the sole…
Matthew Phipps Shiel (1865-1947), was a prolific British writer of fantastic fiction, remembered mostly for supernatural and scientific romances, published as novels, short stories and as serials. He wrote under…
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Never without grief and pain could I remember the fate of Prince Zaleski - victim of a too importunate, too unfortunate Love, which the fulgor of the throne itself could…
That the denoument did take a different turn and pretty strictly in accordance with Zaleski’s forecast, is now matter of history and the incidents, therefore, need no further comment from…
He goeth after her … and knoweth not … Shapes in the Fire is an extraordinary collection of Shiel’s work: don’t miss it.
Tells the story of Adam Jeffson: the first man to reach the North Pole and the last man left alive on earth.
Arthur Machen
Arthur Machen’s novel made a huge impact in 1890 with this tale that literally caused a furor in London by readers who believed the horrific events he described were real.
On publication The Great God Pan was widely denounced by the press as degenerate and horrific because of its decadent style and sexual content, although it has since garnered a…
