Matthew Phipps Shiell (1865-1947), known as M. P. Shiel, was a prolific British writer of West Indian descent. His legal surname remained Shiell, though he adopted the shorter version as a de facto pen name. He is best remembered for his supernatural horror and scientific romances, published as serials, novels, and short stories.
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“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 day I ... SEE MORE