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M.P. Shiel (Matthew Phipps Shiell) | First Editions
1865 - 1947
Matthew Phipps Shiell (21 July 1865 – 17 February 1947) – known as M. P. Shiel – was a prolific British writer of West Indiandescent. His legal surname remained "Shiell" though he adopted the shorter version as a de facto pen name. In his lifetime, Shiel published over 30 books, including 25 novels and various collections of short stories, essays and poems. He is remembered mostly for supernatural horror and scientific romances. His work was published as serials, novels, and as short stories. The Purple Cloud (1901; 1929) remains his most famous and often reprinted novel, and has been variously described as both a neglected masterpiece, and the best of all Last Man novels. Stephen King has cited Shiel's novel as an influence on his own novel, The Stand.
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The Lost Viol.
London, Ward Lock. 1908. Strange tale.First edition. 8vo. 316pp + 16pp ads. Publisher's red cloth titled in gilt and decorated in green to spine and front board. Light bumping to spine ends otherwise a clean and handsome copy. The helpful addition of a Book Lover's Library label to the front..... More
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