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 civilization 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.)
- The Dragon (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 Robert H. Davis) (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
- Seer (1912)
- The Prophet (1912)
- The Copper Princess (1913) [to be reprinted by Murania Press]
- We are French! (with Robert H. Davis) (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 story collections
- Doctor Coffin: The Living Dead Man Off-Trail Publications (2007)
- The Red Road to Shamballah Black Dog Books (2008)
- The Leopard Man and Other Stories Pulpville Press
- Kwa of the Jungle (written as Paul Regard) Pulpville Press
- 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: Reynolds Publishing Company.
References
- ^ Ed Hulse, The Blood 'n' Thunder Guide to Pulp Fiction Murania Press, 2018. ISBN 978-1726443463. (pp.130-131).
- ^ Gene Christie, The People of the Pit, and other early horrors from the Munsey pulps. Normal, IL : Black Dog Books, 2010. (p.202)
External links
- 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
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