The Purple Cloud by M.P. Shiel [1973 PAPERBACK] • Warner Paperback Library

The Purple Cloud by M.P. Shiel

VINTAGE PAPERBACK [1973] WARNER PAPERBACK LIBRARY

3rd Warner mass market paperback printing.

Vintage paperback in excellent condition.

Some light shelf / edge wear to cover.

Reads like new with some inevitable tanning to pages.  *name of org. owner signed neatly atop first page.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Dark, desolate and fantastical, The Purple Cloud was a pioneer in the genre of apocalyptic novels, and the first great science fiction work of the twentieth century. It inspired authors such as H. P. Lovecraft and Stephen King.

The Purple Cloud tells the grandly bleak story of Adam Jeffson: the first man to reach the North Pole and the last man left alive on earth. A sweet-smelling, deadly cloud of poisonous gas has devastated the world, and as Jeffson travels the stricken globe in search of human life, he slowly succumbs to madness, and unleashes fire and destruction on his planet.