by M.P. Shiel
ChronologyIntroductionFurther ReadingNote on the Text--The Purple CloudNotes
I just watched the film, "The World, The Flesh & The Devil" (1959) which is based on this book. Then I read that HP Lovecraft loved this novel. Now I HAVE to read it!
Immediately upon finishing The Purple Cloud I had to reread H.P. Lovecraft's novella "At the Mountains of Madness." Both stories deal with forbidden polar expeditions and world-shattering revelations. Where Lovecraft's story revealed a past and a cosmos where humans hardly signified, Shiel's is a re...
This book is amazingly entertaining and, by coincidence, extremely topical. I wonder why it never became that popular worldwide. Perhaps it will soon.Just think about the trouble we're currently having with that Icelandic vulcano, the tongue-twister Eyjafjallajokull.What if those spiteful ashes were...
The discussion this morning around Day of the Triffids reminded me of this obscure and extremely bizarre novel, which I must have read when I was about ten or eleven. The Wikipedia article is excellent - I had quite forgotten most of the outrageous plot, which starts when God wipes out all human bei...
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