Perley Poore Sheehan

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. 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.

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)
 * The Whispering Chorus (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)
 * The Way of All Flesh (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) [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