M. P. Shiel (1865–1947)
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The House of Sounds and Others: Including the Purple Cloud (Lovecraft's Library) (2005) 23 Exemplare
The Dragon 8 Exemplare
Here Comes The Lady 4 Exemplare
The Yellow Wave 3 Exemplare
Unto the Third Generation 3 Exemplare
The Weird O'IT 3 Exemplare
The House of Sounds [short fiction] 2 Exemplare
The Bride 2 Exemplare
Many a Tear 2 Exemplare
Say au r'voir, but not goodbye 2 Exemplare
THIS KNOT OF LIFE 2 Exemplare
THE WHITE WEDDING 2 Exemplare
The Pale Ape 2 Exemplare
Above All Else 2 Exemplare
Collected Works of M P Shiel Parts Edition 1 Exemplar
Orazio Calvo 1 Exemplar
The Bell of St. Sepulcre by MP Shiel 1 Exemplar
The Case of Euphemia Raphash 1 Exemplar
THE WORKS OF M.P. SHIEL Volume I 1 Exemplar
Phorfor 1 Exemplar
The Stone Of The Edmundsbury Monks 1 Exemplar
Dark Lot Of One Saul 1 Exemplar
SHIEL IN DIVERSE HANDS 1 Exemplar
THE WORKS OF M.P. SHIEL Volume II 1 Exemplar
THE NEW KING 1 Exemplar
M.P. SHIEL AND THE LOVECRAFT CIRCLE 1 Exemplar
CHINA IN ARMS 1 Exemplar
THE WORKS OF M.P. SHIEL Volume III 1 Exemplar
Zugehörige Werke
Great Weird Tales: 14 Stories by Lovecraft, Blackwood, Machen and Others (2011) — Mitwirkender — 57 Exemplare
The Ghost of Fear and Others: H. P. Lovecraft's Favorite Horror Stories Vol. 1 (2012) — Mitwirkender — 26 Exemplare
Homefront Horrors: Frights Away from the Front Lines, 1914-1918 (2016) — Mitwirkender — 14 Exemplare
Friendly aliens : thirteen stories of the fantastic set in Canada by foreign authors — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
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Wissenswertes
- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Shiell, Matthew Phipps
- Andere Namen
- King Felipe I
- Geburtstag
- 1865-07-21
- Todestag
- 1947-02-17
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- UK
- Geburtsort
- Montserrat, British West Indies
- Sterbeort
- Chichester, UK
- Wohnorte
- Montserrat
- Ausbildung
- Harrison College, Barbados
Kings College, London - Berufe
- Novelist
Playwright
Pedophile - Beziehungen
- Tracy, Louis (collaborator)
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This is a horrific and chilling explanation, but after this the novel somewhat lost its way for me. Basically for months and then years he wanders around the world looking for survivors and there are endless descriptions of piles of bodies in streets, buildings, down mines (to try to escape the poison cloud) and so on - "the arrangement of One planet, One inhabitant, already seems to me, not merely a natural and proper, but the only natural and proper, condition; so much so, that any other arrangement has now, to my mind, a certain improbable, wild, and far-fetched unreality, like the Utopian schemes of dreamers and faddists....It seems to me not less than a million million aeons since other beings, more or less resembling me, walked impudently in the open sunlight on this planet, which is rightly mine". These thoughts are symptoms of a growing dislocation and megalomania. He starts to use his engineering skills to, highly implausibly, burn and destroy whole cities, and build himself an opulent palace in Greece. Eventually he finds one other survivor, but cannot decide on his attitude towards her and treats her horribly, though in time this changes. It is implied at the end that they are basically a new Adam and Eve.
This novel had many strengths as an early post-apocalyptic story, but the wanderings around the world were just too long and drawn out and affected the pace of the narrative, and the final encounter with the other survivor does not come across as realistic.… (mehr)