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Perley Poore Sheehan
1875–1943
A newspaperman turned storyteller and screenwriter, he moved easily from adventure fiction and fantasy into the early film world. His work carries the restless, imaginative energy of the pulp era, with lost worlds, mysteries, and high drama never far away.
2 Audiobooks
The Ten-foot Chain; or, Can Love Survive the Shackles? A Unique Symposium
by Achmed Abdullah, Max Brand, E. K. (Eldred Kurtz) Means, Perley Poore Sheehan
Three sevens : A detective story
by Perley Poore Sheehan
About the author
Born in Cincinnati in 1875, Perley Poore Sheehan became an American writer, screenwriter, and film director whose career stretched across print and early cinema. Reliable biographical sources describe him as a novelist and film writer/director, and note that he died in Sierra Madre, California, in 1943.
Sheehan wrote adventure, detective, and fantasy fiction, including The Abyss of Wonders and The Red Road to Shamballah. He also worked in the movie industry, where he is remembered for screenwriting and directing during the silent and early sound eras.
What makes him especially interesting today is how naturally he bridged two popular storytelling worlds: the pulp magazine and the motion picture serial. For listeners who enjoy energetic, old-style popular fiction, he stands out as one of those versatile early 20th-century writers who seemed ready to try every form the new entertainment age could offer.