Download or read book The Purple Cloud written by Matthew Phipps Shiel and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1946 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you know much about the philosophy of the hypnotic trance? That was the relation between us--hypnotist and subject. She had been under another man before my time, suffered from tic of the fifth nerve, had had most of her teeth drawn before I saw her, and an attempt had been made to wrench out the nerve on the left side by external scission.