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The Purple Cloud
Paperback
HorrorScience FictionClassic Fiction
ISBN13: 9781534620889
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 11 2016
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.39 Width: 7.01 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
The Purple Cloud
By
M.P. Shiel
Classic Weird Fiction
The story, a recording of a medium's meditation over the future writing of the text, details the narrator, Adam Jeffson, on an expedition to the North Pole during the 20th century on board the Boreal.
Jeffson's fiancee, the Countess Clodagh, poisons her own cousin in order to secure a place on the ship for Jeffson, because the expedition was known to be one of the best ever planned. A millionaire who died some years previously had provided in his will for the payment of $175,000,000 to the first person to stand at the North Pole.
Before Jeffson leaves, he hears a sermon by a Scottish priest, named Mackay, speaking against Polar research, calling the failure of all previous expeditions the will of God, and prophesying a terrible fate for those who attempt to go against God's will. Jeffson at the same time remembers his meeting with a man who claimed that the universe is a place of strife between vague powers, The White and The Black, for dominance.
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