Perley Poore Sheehan
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Perley Poore Sheehan (7 June 1875 in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States – 30 September 1943 in Sierra Madre, California, United States) was an American film writer, novelist and film director. He was once married to Virginia Point (1902-unknown). Sheehan also wrote detective and adventure fiction for the pulp magazines.[1] Sheehan wrote two fantasy novels, The Abyss of Wonders (1915), about a lost civilisation in the Gobi Desert, and The Red Road to Shamballah (1932-1933) about a hero with a Tibetan magic sword.[2]
Works[]
Filmography as a film writer[]
(note: most of manuscripts below are movies, which are based on his novels.)
- (1916)
- The Bugler of Algiers (1916)
- The Whispering Chorus (1918)
- Brave and Bold (1918)
- A Society Sensation (1918)
- Upstairs (1919)
- Three Sevens (1921)
- For Those We Love (1921)
- If You Believe It, It's So (1922)
- Always the Woman (1922)
- The Old Homestead (1922)
- The Man Who Saw Tomorrow (1922)
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
- The Night Message (1924)
- Love and Glory (1924)
- The Way of All Flesh (1927)
- The Lost City (1935)
Filmography as a film director[]
- The Night Message (1924)
Plays[]
- Efficiency (with ) (1917). This may have been developed from the playscript published by Sheehan and Robert H Davis in The Strand Magazine in 1917, 'Blood and Iron'.
Novels[]
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Sheehan's "Phyllis of Fountain Square" was the cover story in the November 1916 issue of The Argosy
- Seer (1912)
- The Prophet (1912)
- The Copper Princess (1913) [to be reprinted by Murania Press]
- We are French! (with ) (1914)
- The Woman of the Pyramid (1914) [reprinted by Steeger Books]
- The Abyss of Wonders (1915) [reprinted by Murania Press]
- Those Who Walk in Darkness (1917) [reprinted by Fiction House Press]
- Passport invisible (1918)
- The One Gift (1920)
- House with a Bad Name (1920) [reprinted by Fiction House Press]
- The Whispering Chorus (1928)
- King Arthur (Chapbook) (1936)
- Heidi (Chapbook) (1936)
- Lola Montez, her pagan majesty, or, Queen errant (1936)
- Blennerhassett (Chapbook) (1937)
Short Stories Collections[]
- Doctor Coffin: The Living Dead Man (2007)
- The Red Road to Shamballah Black Dog Books (2008)
- The Leopard Man and Other Stories
- Kwa of the Jungle (written as Paul Regard)
- Abdullah, Achmed; Brand, Max; Means, E.K.; Sheehan, Perley Poore (1920). The Ten Foot Chain: Can Love Survive the Shackles? — A Unique Symposium. New York: .
References[]
External links[]
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Wikisource has the text of a 1921 Collier's Encyclopedia article about Perley Poore Sheehan. |
- Works by or about Perley Poore Sheehan at Internet Archive
- Works by Perley Poore Sheehan at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Perley Poore Sheehan at IMDb
- Play by Perley Poore Sheehan on Great War Theatre database
Categories:
- 1875 births
- 1943 deaths
- American male novelists
- Chapbook writers
- American male screenwriters
- American mystery writers
- American fantasy writers
- Pulp fiction writers
- Writers from Cincinnati
- People from Sierra Madre, California
- Novelists from California
- Novelists from Ohio
- Film directors from California
- Screenwriters from California
- Screenwriters from Ohio
- 20th-century American male writers
- 20th-century American screenwriters
- American screenwriter stubs
- American novelist, 19th-century birth stubs