M. P. Shiel

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> M. P. Shiel is a pen name of **Matthew Phipps Shiel** (1865-1947). He was a West Indian-born British writer who produced twenty-five novels and dozens of short stories under the name M. P. Shiel, mostly in the romantic or supernatural adventure vein. His best-remembered novel is *The Purple Cloud* (1901), a "last-man-on-Earth" tale that inspired Stephen King's *The Stand* (1978) as well as several films. He is also known for four stories with the highly unusual detective Prince Zaleski (1895). Chris Steinbrunner and Otto Penzler, in their essential *Encyclopedia of Mystery & Detection* (1976), call Zaleski "probably the most bizarre, erudite, and ethereal detective in literature." Shiel himself, referring to "the notorious Holmes [as] a bastard son" of Dupin, termed Zaleski "a legitimate son." >> Leslie S. Klinger, *In The Shadow of Sherlock Holmes* (2011)

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The lord of the sea
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Heavy Weather
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The yellow danger
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The Great God Pan & Xelucha
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Haunts & Horrors: Strange & Supernatural Fiction by M. P. Shiel
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The Works Of M. P. Shiel
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Shapes in the fire
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The Pale Ape and Other Pulses
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The House of Sounds and Others
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The Race of Orven
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The Stone of the Edmundsbury Monks
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Vaila
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The Purple Cloud
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The Rajah's Sapphire
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Young Men Are Coming!
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Prince Zaleski
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Xélucha and others
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Contraband of war
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Children of the wind
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The white wedding
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The last miracle
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The lost viol
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The evil that men do
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Unto the third generation
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