# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/m-p-shiel
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:00:22.960Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/m-p-shiel"
name: "M. P. Shiel"
slug: "m-p-shiel"
description: "Matthew Phipps Shiell, known as M. P. Shiel, was a British writer, remembered mainly for supernatural horror and scientific romances. His work was published as serials, novels, and as short stories. The Purple Cloud remains his most often reprinted novel."
tagline: "British writer (1865–1947)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/M._P._Shiel.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1865-07-21"
deathDate: "1947-02-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.08
  momentum:             0.4160475482912332
  historical:           11.850472
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0793149/"
    handle:    "nm0793149"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AB%D9%8A%D9%88_%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%A8%D8%B3_%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "ماثيو فيبس شيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ام. پى. شيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "M. P. Shiel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._P._Shiel"
    title: "M. P. Shiel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._P._Shiel"
    title: "M. P. Shiel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._P._Shiel"
    title: "M. P. Shiel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Phipps_Shiel"
    title: "Matthew Phipps Shiel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._P._Shiel"
    title: "M. P. Shiel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B8%D0%BB%2C_%D0%9C%D1%8D%D1%82%D1%8C%D1%8E_%D0%A4%D0%B8%D0%BF%D1%81"
    title: "Шил, Мэтью Фипс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "M.P. Shiel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Метью Шиль"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikiquote.org/wiki/Matthew_Phipps_Shiel"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2517956"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2155114"
    title: "M.P. Shiel"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump