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 civilization 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'' (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) * ''

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'' (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) o be reprinted by Murania Press* ''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 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 *

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