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Author:M. P. Shiel
Haunts & Horrors: Strange & Supernatural Fiction by M. P. Shiel
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 well deserves a place among...- $13.95
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Author:M. P. Shiel
Prince Zaleski
Prince Zaleski, an exiled Russian nobleman, inhabits a half-ruined abbey in Wales, where he spends most of his time smoking cannabis and opium, reading from his library of medieval books, or admiring his collection of rare curios dating from ancient antiquity. His retirement from...- $15.99
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Prince Zaleski
Author: M. P. ShielISBN-10: 143850604XISBN-13: 9781438506043Publisher: Book JungleLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/24/2008Pages: 88Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.37lbsSize: 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.18d- $10.45
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Prince Zaleski
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 not abash; exile perforce from his native land, and voluntary exile from the rest of men...- $6.99
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Author:M. P. Shiel
Prince Zaleski (Esprios Classics)
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 the pen name Gordon Holmes. After working as a teacher and translator he broke...- $22.99
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Prince Zaleski by M. P. Shiel, Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery & Detective, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
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 not abash; exile perforce from his native land, and voluntary exile from the rest...- $11.95
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Shapes in the Fire by M. P. Shiel, Fiction, Literary, Horror, Fantasy
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 the English language."Arthur...- $14.95
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Author:M. P. Shiel
The House of Sounds and Others (Lovecraft's Library)
Author: M. P. ShielISBN-10: 0974878960ISBN-13: 9780974878966Publisher: Hippocampus PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/31/2005Pages: 300Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.97lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67dReview Citation(s): PW Notes and Reprints 08/01/2005 pg. 50- $25.00
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Author:M. P. Shiel
The Lord of the Sea
"The Lord of the Sea (1901), almost as fine as The Purple Cloud], is strongly based on Le Comte de Monte-Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. It develops a network of mid-19th-century motifs -- incredible coincidences, swapped babies, hidden identities, chance-found incredible wealth, documents in a...- $12.95
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Author:M. P. Shiel
The Lord of the Sea
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 domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...- $18.95
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Author:M. P. Shiel
The Lord of the Sea (Esprios Classics)
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 the pen name Gordon Holmes. After working as a teacher and translator he broke...- $31.99
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Author:M. P. Shiel
The Purple Cloud
"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 survivor of her crew . . . What then, my God, shall I do?"...- $7.99
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Author:M. P. Shiel
The Purple Cloud
About three months ago-that is to say, toward the end of May of this year of 1900-the writer whose name appears on the title-page received as noteworthy a letter, and packet of papers, as it has been his lot to examine. They came from...- $7.49
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Author:M. P. Shiel
The Purple Cloud
About three months ago-that is to say, toward the end of May of this year of 1900-the writer whose name appears on the title-page received as noteworthy a letter, and packet of papers, as it has been his lot to examine. They came from...- $7.99
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The Purple Cloud
"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 survivor of her crew . . . What then, my God, shall I do?"...- $16.95
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Author:M. P. Shiel
The Purple Cloud
The first great science fiction novel of the twentieth century--now available from Penguin Classics Strange, macabre, and, fantastical, M. P. Shiel's The Purple Cloud is a landmark work that heralded the genre of apocalyptic fiction. It tells the grandly bleak story of Adam Jeffson--the...- $18.00
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Author:M. P. Shiel
The Purple Cloud
Well, the memory seems to be getting rather impaired now, rather weak. What, for instance, was the name of that parson who preached, just before the Boreal set out, about the wickedness of any further attempt to reach the North Pole? I have forgotten...- $9.99
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Author:M. P. Shiel
The Purple Cloud
Alone that same day I began my way southward, and for five days made good progress. On the eighth day I noticed, stretched right across the south-eastern horizon, a region of purple vapor which luridly obscured the face of the sun: and day after...- $31.95
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Author:M. P. Shiel
The Purple Cloud
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!Author: M. P. ShielISBN-10: 1387855611ISBN-13: 9781387855612Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/19/2022Pages: 106Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.34lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.22d- $11.99
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The Purple Cloud
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 domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...- $28.95
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The Purple Cloud
"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 survivor of her crew . . . What then, my God, shall I do?"...- $9.99
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The Purple Cloud (Esprios Classics)
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 the pen name Gordon Holmes. After working as a teacher and translator he broke...- $30.99
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The Purple Cloud by M. P. Shiel, Fiction, Literary, Horror
It begins with the end of the world . . . In some way, Jeffson is chosen, for he tells of hearing the voices from an early age. Adam Jeffson ends up as the first man to reach the North Pole -- alone --...- $16.95
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