Perley Poore Sheehan

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

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 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

1. Ed Hulse, The Blood 'n' Thunder Guide to Pulp Fiction Murania Press, 2018. ISBN 978-1726443463. (pp.130-131).
2. 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 the 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