Die purpurne Wolke

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The Purple Cloud is a "last man" novel by British writer M.P. Shiel published in 1901. H.P. Lovecraft praised it as exemplary weird fiction, "delivered with a skill & artistry falling little short of actual majesty." Frank Belknap Long deemed it "the most unutterably terrible book ever written". The novel exists in three distinct texts. It was first published as a serial, illustrated by J.J. Cameron, in The Royal Magazine, Vol. V, 27-30, Vol. VI, 31-32, January to June 1901. This, the shortest version, was photo-offset in Vol. I of A. Reynolds Morse's monumental series, The Works of M.P.