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.)

Filmography as a film director

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)


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