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M. P. Shiel

Lifespan: 1865 – 1947
Nationality: British
Active: 1901
Works held: 1

M. P. Shiel (1865–1947) wrote The Purple Cloud (1901), one of the great ‘last man on Earth’ novels, in which a poisonous cloud extinguishes humanity and a lone survivor wanders a depopulated world into madness and rebirth. His ornate, feverish prose and cosmic scale made him a cult figure of apocalyptic and scientific romance.

The works

1901

The Purple Cloud

Wrote across

Recurring themes

Post-Apocalyptic Horror

Kindred authors shared themes

Algis Budrys Arthur Conan Doyle Arthur J. Burks Bryce Walton Dave Dryfoos E. Hoffmann Price Edmond Hamilton Evelyn E. Smith

Contemporaries writing in the same era

L. Frank Baum H. G. Wells E. Nesbit Luis Senarens Anonymous Frances Hodgson Burnett Jack London Algernon Blackwood John Kendrick Bangs Rudyard Kipling

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