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M. P. Shiel

M. P. Shiel

Shiell, Matthew Phipps

July 21, 1865 – February 17, 1947 (aged 81)

Birth place: Montserrat, West Indies, British Empire

77 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
April 1895 568 Short Fiction Huguenin's Wife The Pall Mall Magazine, April 1895
December 1895 Short Fiction The Case of Euphemia Raphash Chapman's Magazine of Fiction, Christmas 1895
September 1896 755 Short Fiction The Spectre-Ship Cassell's Family Magazine, September 1896
October 1897 500 Short Fiction A Night in Venice The Cornhill Magazine, October 1897
February 1898 161 Serial The Empress of the Earth: The Tale of the Yellow War (Part 1 of 20) Short Stories, February 5, 1898
February 1898 193 Serial The Empress of the Earth: The Tale of the Yellow War (Part 2 of 20) Short Stories, February 12, 1898
February 1898 228 Serial The Empress of the Earth: The Tale of the Yellow War (Part 3 of 20) Short Stories, February 19, 1898
February 1898 260 Serial The Empress of the Earth: The Tale of the Yellow War (Part 4 of 20) Short Stories, February 26, 1898
March 1898 296 Serial The Empress of the Earth: The Tale of the Yellow War (Part 5 of 20) Short Stories, March 5, 1898
March 1898 335 Serial The Empress of the Earth: The Tale of the Yellow War (Part 6 of 20) Short Stories, March 12, 1898
March 1898 368 Serial The Empress of the Earth: The Tale of the Yellow War (Part 7 of 20) Short Stories, March 19, 1898
March 1898 394 Serial The Empress of the Earth: The Tale of the Yellow War (Part 8 of 20) Short Stories, March 26, 1898
April 1898 465 Serial The Empress of the Earth: The Tale of the Yellow War (Part 10 of 20) Short Stories, April 9, 1898
April 1898 494 Serial The Empress of the Earth: The Tale of the Yellow War (Part 11 of 20) Short Stories, April 16, 1898
April 1898 518 Serial The Empress of the Earth: The Tale of the Yellow War (Part 12 of 20) Short Stories, April 23, 1898
April 1898 560 Serial The Empress of the Earth: The Tale of the Yellow War (Part 13 of 20) Short Stories, April 30, 1898
April 1898 421 Serial The Empress of the Earth: The Tale of the Yellow War (Part 9 of 20) Short Stories, April 2, 1898
May 1898 586 Serial The Empress of the Earth: The Tale of the Yellow War (Part 14 of 20) Short Stories, May 7, 1898
May 1898 620 Serial The Empress of the Earth: The Tale of the Yellow War (Part 15 of 20) Short Stories, May 14, 1898
May 1898 654 Serial The Empress of the Earth: The Tale of the Yellow War (Part 16 of 20) Short Stories, May 21, 1898
May 1898 682 Serial The Empress of the Earth: The Tale of the Yellow War (Part 17 of 20) Short Stories, May 28, 1898
June 1898 714 Serial The Empress of the Earth: The Tale of the Yellow War (Part 18 of 20) Short Stories, June 4, 1898
June 1898 746 Serial The Empress of the Earth: The Tale of the Yellow War (Part 19 of 20) Short Stories, June 11, 1898
June 1898 779 Serial The Empress of the Earth: The Tale of the Yellow War (Part 20 of 20) Short Stories, June 18, 1898
January 1901 276 Serial The Purple Cloud (Part 1 of 6) The Royal Magazine, January 1901
February 1901 358 Serial The Purple Cloud (Part 2 of 6) The Royal Magazine, February 1901
March 1901 437 Serial The Purple Cloud (Part 3 of 6) The Royal Magazine, March 1901
April 1901 508 Serial The Purple Cloud (Part 4 of 6) The Royal Magazine, April 1901
May 1901 37 Serial The Purple Cloud (Part 5 of 6) The Royal Magazine, May 1901
June 1901 139 Serial The Purple Cloud (Part 6 of 6) The Royal Magazine, June 1901
September 1908 283 Short Fiction Many a Tear Pearson's Magazine, September 1908
November 1911 247 Short Fiction The Bell of St. Sépulcre The Red Magazine, November 1, 1911
February 1912 843 Short Fiction Dark Lot of One Saul The Grand Magazine, February 1912
February 1912 220 Short Fiction The Tale of Gaston and Mathilde The Red Magazine, February 01, 1912
January 1913 721 Serial To Arms! (Part 1 of 6) The Red Magazine, January 1, 1913
January 1913 67 Serial To Arms! (Part 2 of 6) The Red Magazine, January 15, 1913
February 1913 244 Serial To Arms! (Part 3 of 6) The Red Magazine, February 1, 1913
February 1913 389 Serial To Arms! (Part 4 of 6) The Red Magazine, February 15, 1913
March 1913 527 Serial To Arms! (Part 5 of 6) The Red Magazine, March 1, 1913
March 1913 683 Serial To Arms! (Part 6 of 6) The Red Magazine, March 15, 1913
May 1914 76 Short Fiction The Place of Pain The Red Magazine, May 1, 1914
March 1928 7 Serial In 2073 (A.D.) (Part 1 of 4) Daily Herald, March 12, 1928
March 1928 Serial In 2073 (A.D.) (Part 2 of 4) Daily Herald, March 13, 1928
March 1928 9 Serial In 2073 (A.D.) (Part 3 of 4) Daily Herald, March 14, 1928
March 1928 9 Serial In 2073 (A.D.) (Part 4 of 4) Daily Herald, March 15, 1928
January 1930 95|95.2 Review Dr. Krasinski's Secret Scientific Detective Monthly, January 1930
December 1930 767|767.2 Review The Purple Cloud Wonder Stories, December 1930
February 1946 Short Fiction Cummings Monk Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, February 1946
June 1949 10 Serial The Purple Cloud (Complete Novel) Famous Fantastic Mysteries, June 1949
March 1964 80 Review The Purple Cloud The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 1964
November 1964 90 Review Lord of the Sea Analog Science Fact -> Science Fiction, November 1964
November 1964 90 Review The Purple Cloud Analog Science Fact -> Science Fiction, November 1964
1969 16 Review The Purple Cloud Vector 53 Spring / Summer 1969
June 1975 2 Review Xelucha and Others The Science Fiction Review (Monthly), June 1975
June 1975 3 Review Xelucha and Others Whispers, June 1975
April 1976 64 Review Xelucha and Others The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, April 1976
May 1976 115 Review Xélucha Fantastic, May 1976
March 1982 18 Review The Rajah's Sapphire Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review, #2, March 1982
August 1982 15 Review Prince Zaleski and Cummings King Monk Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, August 1982
August 1982 116 Review The New King Whispers , August 1982
August 1982 15 Review The New King Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, August 1982
August 1982 14 Review The Purple Cloud Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, August 1982
August 1982 15 Review The Rajah's Sapphire Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, August 1982
August 1982 15 Review The Works of M. P. Shiel, Volume 1: The Writings Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, August 1982
August 1982 15 Review Xelucha and Others Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, August 1982
April 1983 30 Review The Rajah's Sapphire Fantasy Newsletter, #58 April 1983
January 2001 20 Review The Purple Cloud The New York Review of Science Fiction, January 2001
May 2001 137 Review The Purple Cloud Analog Science Fiction and Fact, May 2001
June 2001 130 Review Shapes in the Fire: Being a Mid-Winter-Night's Entertainment in Two Parts & an Interlude All Hallows, June 2001
June 2003 147 Review Prince Zaleski All Hallows, June 2003
June 2004 126 Review The Purple Cloud All Hallows, June 2004
January 2006 20 Review The House of Sounds and Others Weird Tales, January-February 2006
January 2006 Review The House of Sounds and Others Strange Horizons, 23 January 2006
October 2006 295 Review The Pale Ape and Other Pulses All Hallows, October 2006
2013 35 Review The Purple Cloud Vector 272 Spring 2013
September 2013 88 Review Xelucha Black Static, Issue 36, September-October 2013
September 2019 8 Review The Purple Cloud Asimov's Science Fiction, September-October 2019

42 English-language books

Year Type Title Author(s)
1895 Collection Prince Zaleski M. P. Shiel
1896 Collection Shapes in the Fire M. P. Shiel
1896 Collection Shapes in the Fire: Being a Mid-Winter-Nights's Entertainment in Two Parts and an Interlude M. P. Shiel
1896 Novel The Rajah's Sapphire M. P. Shiel
1898 Novel The Yellow Danger M. P. Shiel
1899 Novel Cold Steel M. P. Shiel
1899 Novel Contraband of War M. P. Shiel
1899 Novel The Yellow Danger: The Story of the World's Greatest War M. P. Shiel
1901 Novel The Lord of the Sea M. P. Shiel
1901 Novel The Purple Cloud M. P. Shiel
1903 Novel Unto the Third Generation M. P. Shiel
1904 Novel The Evil That Men Do M. P. Shiel
1905 Novel The Lost Viol M. P. Shiel
1905 Novel The Yellow Wave M. P. Shiel
1906 Novel The Last Miracle M. P. Shiel
1908 Novel The Isle of Lies M. P. Shiel
1909 Novel This Knot of Life M. P. Shiel
1911 Collection The Pale Ape: and Other Pulses M. P. Shiel
1913 Novel The Dragon M. P. Shiel
1923 Novel Children of the Wind M. P. Shiel
1928 Collection Here Comes the Lady M. P. Shiel
1928 Novel How the Old Woman Got Home M. P. Shiel
1929 Novel Dr. Krasinski's Secret M. P. Shiel
1929 Novel The Yellow Peril M. P. Shiel
1930 Novel The Black Box M. P. Shiel
1933 Novel Say Au R'voir, But Not Goodbye M. P. Shiel
1933 Novel This Above All M. P. Shiel
1935 Collection The Invisible Voices M. P. Shiel
1937 Novel The Young Men Are Coming! M. P. Shiel
1943 Novel Above All Else M. P. Shiel
1948 Collection The Best Short Stories of M.P. Shiel M. P. Shiel
1950 Nonfiction Science, Life and Literature M. P. Shiel
1975 Collection Xelucha and Others M. P. Shiel
1977 Collection Prince Zaleski and Cummings King Monk M. P. Shiel
1979 Collection The Empress of the Earth 1898; The Purple Cloud 1901; Some Short Stories M. P. Shiel
1979 Collection The Works of M. P. Shiel, Volume 1: The Writings M. P. Shiel
1980 Novel The New King M. P. Shiel
1994 Collection Xélucha and The Primate of the Rose M. P. Shiel
2002 Collection Prince Zaleski (expanded) M. P. Shiel
2005 Collection The House of Sounds and Others M. P. Shiel
2012 Collection Haunts & Horrors: Strange & Supernatural Fiction by M.P. Shiel M. P. Shiel
2012 Anthology The Great God Pan & Xelucha Arthur Machen & M. P. Shiel
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