Perley Poore Sheehan (7 June 1875 in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States – 30 September 1943 in Sierra Madre, California, United States) was an American film writer, novelist and film director. He was once married to Virginia Point (1902-unknown). Sheehan also wrote detective and adventure fiction for the pulp magazines.[1] Sheehan wrote two fantasy novels, The Abyss of Wonders (1915), about a lost civilization in the Gobi Desert, and The Red Road to Shamballah (1932–1933) about a hero with a Tibetan magic sword.[2]
Works
Filmography as a film writer
(note: most of manuscripts below are movies, which are based on his novels.)
Efficiency (with Robert H. Davis) (1917). This may have been developed from the playscript published by Sheehan and Robert H Davis in The Strand Magazine in 1917, 'Blood and Iron'.
Novels
Sheehan's "Phyllis of Fountain Square" was the cover story in the November 1916 issue of The Argosy
Seer (1912)
The Prophet (1912)
The Copper Princess (1913) [to be reprinted by Murania Press]