M P Shiel

Praise for The Purple Cloud

Fantastic, weird, macabre...imaginative, fascinating, convincing, as some dreadful nightmare...a remarkable piece of work...head and shoulders above the average tale of fantastic adventure

New York Times Book Review

Delivered with a skill and artistry falling little short of actual majesty

H P Lovecraft

The first great science fiction novel of the science fiction century

John Clute

Fantastic, weird, macabre...imaginative, fascinating, convincing, as some dreadful nightmare...a remarkable piece of work...head and shoulders above the average tale of fantastic adventure

New York Times Book Review

Delivered with a skill and artistry falling little short of actual majesty

H P Lovecraft

The first great science fiction novel of the science fiction century

John Clute

Fantastic, weird, macabre...imaginative, fascinating, convincing, as some dreadful nightmare...a remarkable piece of work...head and shoulders above the average tale of fantastic adventure

New York Times Book Review

Delivered with a skill and artistry falling little short of actual majesty

H P Lovecraft

The first great science fiction novel of the science fiction century

John Clute