Perley Poore Sheehan (7 June 1875 in

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, United States) was an American film writer, novelist and film director. He was once married to Virginia Point (1902-unknown). Sheehan also wrote

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. 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.Gene Christie, ''The People of the Pit, and other early horrors from the Munsey pulps''. Normal, IL : Black Dog Books, 2010. (p.202)

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) * ''

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'' (1918) * '' Brave and Bold'' (1918) * '' A Society Sensation'' (1918) * '' Upstairs'' (1919) * '' Three Sevens'' (1921) * ''

For Those We Love ''For Those We Love'' is a 1921 American silent romantic drama film produced by and starring Betty Compson, and featuring Lon Chaney and Richard Rosson. Written and directed by Arthur Rosson, the film was based on a story by Perley Poore Sheeha ...

'' (1921) * '' If You Believe It, It's So'' (1922) * ''

Always the Woman ''Always the Woman'' is a 1922 American silent romance drama film produced by and starring Betty Compson and directed by Arthur Rosson. The film is incomplete and preserved at the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Plot Celia Thaxter (Compson) ...

'' (1922) * '' The Old Homestead'' (1922) * '' The Man Who Saw Tomorrow'' (1922) * ''

The Hunchback of Notre Dame ''The Hunchback of Notre-Dame'' (french: Notre-Dame de Paris, translation=''Our Lady of Paris'', originally titled ''Notre-Dame de Paris. 1482'') is a French Gothic novel by Victor Hugo, published in 1831. It focuses on the unfortunate story of ...

'' (1923) * '' The Night Message'' (1924) * '' Love and Glory'' (1924) * ''

The Way of All Flesh ''The Way of All Flesh'' (sometimes called ''Ernest Pontifex, or the Way of All Flesh'') is a semi-autobiographical novel by Samuel Butler that attacks Victorian-era hypocrisy. Written between 1873 and 1884, it traces four generations of th ...

'' (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)

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* ''We are French!'' (with Robert H. Davis) (1914) * ''The Woman of the Pyramid'' (1914) eprinted by Steeger Books* '' The Abyss of Wonders'' (1915) eprinted by Murania Press* ''Those Who Walk in Darkness'' (1917) eprinted by Fiction House Press* ''Passport invisible'' (1918) * ''The One Gift'' (1920) * ''House with a Bad Name'' (1920) eprinted 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'' 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 *

References

External links

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Play by Perley Poore Sheehan on Great War Theatre database
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 {{US-novelist-1870s-stub