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BOOK REVIEWS

The Works of M.P. Shiel, by A. Reynolds Morse. 172 pages, illustrated cover by Salvatore Dali with lettering detail by Jack Gaughan.
Limited, numbered edition of 1,000 copies. 6.00.
Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc., 8318 Avalon Blvd Los Angeles 3, California.

At last in a finely printed volume, a scholarly work regarding the books and other writings of one of the greatest fantasy writers.
Matthew Phipps Shiel died in England in 1947, at 81 years of age. Never a highly collected author until in recent years, Shiel's long list of superb fantasies, his well thought out Utopias have recently become the most sought after of fantasy books. It cannot be said that any one author has done more to the ranks of higher literature. A pattern for lesser writers who stole freely from his highly skilled plots and prostituted them for the more common pulp sources and the blood-and-thunder novels, Shiel was a serious and

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BOOK REVIEWS The Works of M.P. Shiel, by A. Reynolds Morse. 172 pages, illustrated cover by Salvatore Dali with lettering detail by Jack Gaughan. Limited, numbered edition of 1,000 copies. 6.00. Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc., 8318 Avalon Blvd Los Angeles 3, California. At last in a finely printed volume, a scholarly work regarding the books and other writings of one of the greatest fantasy writers. Matthew Phipps Shiel died in England in 1947, at 81 years of age. Never a highly collected author until in recent years, Shiel's long list of superb fantasies, his well thought out Utopias have recently become the most sought after of fantasy books. It cannot be said that any one author has done more to the ranks of higher literature. A pattern for lesser writers who stole freely from his highly skilled plots and prostituted them for the more common pulp sources and the blood-and-thunder novels, Shiel was a serious and 26