Author:Matthew Phipps Shiel

Matthew Phipps Shiel
(1865–1947)

Matthew Phipps Shiel

Works

Novels

• The Rajah's Sapphire (1896), with uncredited W. T. Stead
• An American Emperor: The Story of the Fourth Estate of France (1897), uncredited, with Louis Tracy
• The Yellow Danger (1898); full title The Yellow Danger; Or, what Might Happen in the Division of the Chinese Empire Should Estrange All European Countries, serialised 1898 as The Empress of the Earth: The Tale of the Yellow War; issued in the U.S. 1898 as China in Arms, 1899 revised as The Yellow Danger: The Story of the World's Greatest War
• Contraband of War (1899)
• Cold Steel (1899, revised 1929)
• The Man-Stealers (1900)
• The Lord of the Sea (1901, revised 1924), plotted as Notebook II
• The Purple Cloud (1901, revised 1929), serialised 1901 as Notebook III
• The Weird o' It (1902), serialised 1902 as In Love's Whirlpool
• Unto the Third Generation (1903)
• The Evil That Men Do (1904)
• The Lost Viol (1905)
• The Yellow Wave (1905) – non-fantastic, based on the contemporary Russo-Japanese War
• The Last Miracle (1906, revised 1929), plotted by 1898 as Notebook I
• The White Wedding (1908)
• The Isle of Lies (1909)
• This Knot of Life (1909)
• The Dragon (1913), serialised 1913 as To Arms!, revised as The Yellow Peril (1929)
• Children of the Wind (1923)
• How the Old Woman Got Home (1927)
• Dr. Krasinski's Secret (1929)
• The Black Box (1930)
• Say Au R'Voir But Not Goodbye (1933)
• This Above All (1933), reissued as Above All Else (1943)
• The Young Men Are Coming! (1937)
• The New King (1981), alternately entitled The Splendid Devil, written c. 1934–45

Short story collections

• Prince Zaleski (1895) (external scan)
  • The Race of Orven
  • The Stone of the Edmundsbury Monks
  • The S.S.
• Shapes in the Fire (1896) (external scan)
  • The Case of Euphemia Raphash
  • Vaila, or the House of Sounds
  • Maria in the Rose-bush
  • Xélucha
  • Tulsah
  • The Serpent-ship
  • Phorfor
• The Pale Ape: and Other Pulses (1911)
  • A Bundle of Letters
  • Cummings King Monk
  • Huguenin's Wife
  • Many a Tear
  • The Bride
  • The Great King
  • The House of Sounds
  • The Spectre-Ship
  • The Pale Ape

Works about Shiel

• "Shiel, Matthew Phipps," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)