caption death_date influenced birth_place citizenship nationality ethnicity relatives name birth_date image article_title birth_name alma_mater
matthew phipps & carolina shiel 1901 17 february 1947 arthur machen stephen king montserrat british british irish , west indian priscilla ann blake matthew dowdy shiell m. p. shiel 21 july 1865 matthew phipps & carolina shiel 1901 repaired.png m. p. shiel
 matthew phipps shiell harrison college , barbados
m. p. shiel

matthew phipps shiell -lrb- 21 july 1865 -- 17 february 1947 -rrb- -- known as m. p. shiel -- was a prolific british writer of west indian descent .
his legal surname remained `` shiell '' though he adopted the shorter version as a de facto pen name .
he is remembered mostly for supernatural and scientific romances .
his work was published as serials , novels , and as short stories .
`` the purple cloud '' -lrb- 1901 ; 1929 -rrb- remains his most famous and often reprinted novel .
