Shapes in the Fire by M. P. Shiel, Fiction, Literary, Horror, Fantasy

Considered by some critics to be the most flamboyant works of the English decadent movement.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."