Shapes in the Fire

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August Derleth said M.P. Shiel was “. . . the Grand Viscount of the Grotesque . . . [with a] refulgently fanciful imagination and magical command of the English language.” Arthur Machen said, “Here is a wilder wonderland than Poe ever dreamt of . . . It is Poe, perhaps, but Poe with an unearthly radiance.” *Shapes in the Fire* is an extraordinary collection of Shiel’s don’t miss it.