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M. P. Shiel

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Matthew Phipps Shiell (21 July 1865 – 17 February 1947) – known as M. P. Shiel – was a prolific British writer. [1]

80 relations: Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, Arkham House, Arthur Machen, Arthur Ransome, Boxer Rebellion, Brian Stableford, Charles Henry Pearson, Chichester, Civil list, Condiment, Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885, David G. Hartwell, De facto, Decadence, Decadent movement, E. F. Bleiler, Edgar Allan Poe, Ernest Dowson, Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc., Fraud, Fu Manchu, Future history, Gospel of Luke, H. G. Wells, Harrison College (Barbados), Harry Belafonte, Henry George, Hippocampus Press, Hoax, Home Secretary, Horror fiction, Inger Stevens, Irish, Jack London, John Clute, John Gawsworth, John Lane (publisher), King's College London, Kingdom of Redonda, Louis Tracy, Mel Ferrer, Michael Dirda, Montserrat, Oswell Blakeston, Prince Zaleski and Cummings King Monk, Pseudonym, Public domain, Reynolds and Eleanor Morse, Romeo and Juliet, Russo-Japanese War, ..., Sax Rohmer, Science fiction, Science Fiction Studies, Scientific romance, Sir Arthur Pearson, 1st Baronet, Spanish–American War, Stephen King, Sun Yat-sen, Tartarus Press, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, The New York Review of Science Fiction, The Purple Cloud, The Royal Magazine, The Stand, The Strand Magazine, The Unparalleled Invasion, The War in the Air, The Works of M. P. Shiel, The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959 film), Theodore Wratislaw, Victor Gollancz, W. T. Stead, West Indian, West Indies, Wisborough Green, Workers' Socialist Federation, Xélucha and Others, Xinhai Revolution, Yellow Peril, Yoshio Markino. Expand index (30 more) »

Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction

Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction, science fantasy or horror in which the Earth's technological civilization is collapsing or has collapsed.

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Arkham House

Arkham House is a publishing house specializing in weird fiction founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to preserve in hardcover the best fiction of H. P. Lovecraft.

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Arthur Machen

Arthur Machen (3 March 1863 – 15 December 1947) was a Welsh author and mystic of the 1890s and early 20th century.

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Arthur Ransome

Arthur Michell Ransome (18 January 1884 – 3 June 1967) was an English author and journalist.

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Boxer Rebellion

The Boxer Rebellion (拳亂), Boxer Uprising or Yihetuan Movement (義和團運動) was a violent anti-foreign, anti-colonial and anti-Christian uprising that took place in China between 1899 and 1901, toward the end of the Qing dynasty.

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Brian Stableford

Brian Michael Stableford (born 25 July 1948) is a British science fiction writer who has published more than 70 novels.

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Charles Henry Pearson

Charles Henry Pearson (7 September 1830 – 29 May 1894) was a British-born Australian historian, educationist, politician and journalist.

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Chichester

Chichester is a cathedral city in West Sussex, in South-East England.

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Civil list

A civil list is a list of individuals to whom money is paid by the government.

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Condiment

A condiment is a spice, sauce, or preparation that is added to food to impart a particular flavor, to enhance its flavor, or in some cultures, to complement the dish.

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Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885

The Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885 (48 & 49 Vict. c.69), or "An Act to make further provision for the Protection of Women and Girls, the suppression of brothels, and other purposes", was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, the latest in a 25-year series of legislation in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland beginning with the Offences against the Person Act 1861 that raised the age of consent and delineated the penalties for sexual offences against women and minors.

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David G. Hartwell

David Geddes Hartwell (July 10, 1941 – January 20, 2016) was an American critic, publisher, and editor of thousands of science fiction and fantasy novels.

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De facto

In law and government, de facto (or;, "in fact") describes practices that exist in reality, even if not legally recognised by official laws.

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Decadence

The word decadence, which at first meant simply "decline" in an abstract sense, is now most often used to refer to a perceived decay in standards, morals, dignity, religious faith, or skill at governing among the members of the elite of a very large social structure, such as an empire or nation state.

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Decadent movement

The Decadent Movement was a late 19th-century artistic and literary movement, centered in Western Europe, that followed an aesthetic ideology of excess and artificiality.

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E. F. Bleiler

Everett Franklin Bleiler (April 30, 1920 – June 13, 2010) was an editor, bibliographer, and scholar of science fiction, detective fiction, and fantasy literature.

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, editor, and literary critic.

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Ernest Dowson

Ernest Christopher Dowson (2 August 186723 February 1900) was an English poet, novelist, short-story writer, often associated with the Decadent movement.

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Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc.

Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc., or FPCI, was a science fiction and fantasy small press specialty publishing company established in 1946.

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Fraud

In law, fraud is deliberate deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right.

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Fu Manchu

Dr.

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Future history

A future history is a postulated history of the future and is used by authors of science fiction and other speculative fiction to construct a common background for fiction.

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Gospel of Luke

The Gospel According to Luke (Τὸ κατὰ Λουκᾶν εὐαγγέλιον, to kata Loukan evangelion), also called the Gospel of Luke, or simply Luke, is the third of the four canonical Gospels.

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H. G. Wells

Herbert George Wells.

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Harrison College (Barbados)

Harrison College is a co-educational grammar school (secondary school) in Bridgetown, Barbados.

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Harry Belafonte

Harry Belafonte (born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.; March 1, 1927) is an American singer, songwriter, actor, and social activist.

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Henry George

Henry George (September 2, 1839 – October 29, 1897) was an American political economist and journalist.

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Hippocampus Press

Hippocampus Press is an American publisher of fantasy, horror and science fiction, and specializes in "the works of H. P. Lovecraft and his literary circle." As of 2017, it has issued over 200 publications, including editions of the complete fiction, essays, and poetry of Lovecraft, and thirteen volumes in the ongoing series of Lovecraft's Collected Letters.

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Hoax

A hoax is a falsehood deliberately fabricated to masquerade as the truth.

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Home Secretary

Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, normally referred to as the Home Secretary, is a senior official as one of the Great Offices of State within Her Majesty's Government and head of the Home Office.

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Horror fiction

Horror is a genre of speculative fiction which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten, scare, disgust, or startle its readers or viewers by inducing feelings of horror and terror.

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Inger Stevens

Inger Stevens (born Ingrid Stensland, October 18, 1934April 30, 1970) was a Swedish-American film, television, and stage actress.

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Irish

Irish most commonly refers to.

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Jack London

John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney; January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist.

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John Clute

John Frederick Clute (born 12 September 1940) is a Canadian-born author and critic specializing in science fiction (also SF, sf) and fantasy literature who has lived in both England and the United States since 1969.

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John Gawsworth

Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong (29 June 1912 – 23 September 1970), better known as John Gawsworth (and also sometimes known as T. I. F. Armstrong), was a British writer, poet and compiler of anthologies, both of poetry and of short stories.

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John Lane (publisher)

John Lane (14 March 1854 – 2 February 1925) was a British publisher who founded The Bodley Head in 1887 with Charles Elkin Mathews.

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King's College London

King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom, and a founding constituent college of the federal University of London.

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Kingdom of Redonda

The Kingdom of Redonda is the name for the micronation associated with the tiny uninhabited Caribbean island of Redonda.

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Louis Tracy

Louis Tracy (1863 - 1928) was a British journalist, and prolific writer of fiction.

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Mel Ferrer

Melchor Gastón Ferrer (August 25, 1917 – June 2, 2008) was an American actor and director of stage and screen, film producer and the first husband of Audrey Hepburn.

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Michael Dirda

Michael Dirda (born 1948) is a book critic for the Washington Post.

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Montserrat

Montserrat is a Caribbean island in the Leeward Islands, which is part of the chain known as the Lesser Antilles, in the West Indies.

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Oswell Blakeston

Oswell Blakeston was the pseudonym of Henry Joseph Hasslacher (1907–1985), a British writer and artist who also worked in the film industry, made some experimental films, and wrote extensively on film theory.

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Prince Zaleski and Cummings King Monk

Prince Zaleski and Cummings King Monk is a collection of supernatural detective short stories by author M. P. Shiel.

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Pseudonym

A pseudonym or alias is a name that a person or group assumes for a particular purpose, which can differ from their first or true name (orthonym).

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Public domain

The public domain consists of all the creative works to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply.

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Reynolds and Eleanor Morse

Albert Reynolds Morse (October 20, 1914 – August 15, 2000) was an American businessman and philanthropist.

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Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families.

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Russo-Japanese War

The Russo–Japanese War (Russko-yaponskaya voina; Nichirosensō; 1904–05) was fought between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and Korea.

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Sax Rohmer

Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward (15 February 1883 – 1 June 1959), better known as Sax Rohmer, was a prolific English novelist.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.

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Science Fiction Studies

Science Fiction Studies (SFS) is an academic journal founded in 1973 by R. D. Mullen.

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Scientific romance

Scientific romance is an archaic term for the genre of fiction now commonly known as science fiction.

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Sir Arthur Pearson, 1st Baronet

Sir Cyril Arthur Pearson, 1st Baronet, (24 February 1866 – 9 December 1921) was a British newspaper magnate and publisher, best known for founding the Daily Express.

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Spanish–American War

The Spanish–American War (Guerra hispano-americana or Guerra hispano-estadounidense; Digmaang Espanyol-Amerikano) was fought between the United States and Spain in 1898.

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Stephen King

Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy.

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Sun Yat-sen

Sun Yat-sen (12 November 1866 – 12 March 1925)Singtao daily.

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Tartarus Press

Tartarus Press is an independent book publisher based near Leyburn, Yorkshire, UK.

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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction is an English language reference work on science fiction, first published in 1979.

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The New York Review of Science Fiction

The New York Review of Science Fiction is a monthly literary magazine of science fiction that was established in 1988.

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The Purple Cloud

The Purple Cloud is a "last man" novel by the British writer M. P. Shiel.

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The Royal Magazine

The Royal Magazine was a monthly British literary magazine that was published between 1898 and 1939.

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The Stand

The Stand is a post-apocalyptic horror/fantasy novel by American author Stephen King.

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The Strand Magazine

The Strand Magazine was a monthly magazine founded by George Newnes, composed of short fiction and general interest articles.

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The Unparalleled Invasion

"The Unparalleled Invasion" is a science fiction story written by Jack London.

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The War in the Air

The War in the Air, a military science fiction novel by H. G. Wells, written in four months in 1907 and serialised and published in 1908 in The Pall Mall Magazine, is like many of Wells's works notable for its prophetic ideas, images, and concepts—in this case, the use of the aircraft for the purpose of warfare and the coming of World War I. The novel's hero is Bert Smallways, a "forward-thinking young man" and a "kind of bicycle engineer of the let's-'ave-a-look-at-it and enamel-chipping variety.".

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The Works of M. P. Shiel

The Works of M. P. Shiel is a bibliography of works by British author M. P. Shiel.

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The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959 film)

The World, the Flesh and the Devil is a 1959 American science fiction doomsday film written and directed by Ranald MacDougall.

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Theodore Wratislaw

Theodore William Graf Wratislaw (1871–1933) was a British poet and civil servant.

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Victor Gollancz

Sir Victor Gollancz (9 April 1893 – 8 February 1967) was a British publisher and humanitarian.

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W. T. Stead

William Thomas Stead (5 July 1849 – 15 April 1912) was an English newspaper editor who, as a pioneer of investigative journalism, became a controversial figure of the Victorian era.

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West Indian

A West Indian is a native or inhabitant of the West Indies (the Antilles and the Lucayan Archipelago).

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West Indies

The West Indies or the Caribbean Basin is a region of the North Atlantic Ocean in the Caribbean that includes the island countries and surrounding waters of three major archipelagoes: the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles and the Lucayan Archipelago.

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Wisborough Green

Wisborough Green is a village and civil parish in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England, west of Billingshurst on the A272 road.

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Workers' Socialist Federation

The Workers' Socialist Federation was a socialist political party in the United Kingdom, led by Sylvia Pankhurst.

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Xélucha and Others

Xélucha and Others is a collection of stories by author M. P. Shiel.

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Xinhai Revolution

The Xinhai Revolution, also known as the Chinese Revolution or the Revolution of 1911, was a revolution that overthrew China's last imperial dynasty (the Qing dynasty) and established the Republic of China (ROC).

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Yellow Peril

The Yellow Peril (also Yellow Terror and Yellow Spectre) is a racist color-metaphor that is integral to the xenophobic theory of colonialism: that the peoples of East Asia are a danger to the Western world.

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Yoshio Markino

was a Japanese artist and author who spent much of his life in London.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._P._Shiel

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