Sheehan, Perley Poore: Monsieur de Guise. V1. 21 Jun 2012
 

Perley Poore Sheehan (7 June 1875 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA – 30 September 1943 in Sierra Madre, California, USA) was an American film writer, novelist and film director. He was once married to Virginia Point (1902-unknown).

Excerpt
That any one should live in the center of Cedar Swamp was in itself so singular as to set all sorts of queer ideas to running through my head.

A more sinister morass I had never seen. It was as beautiful and deadly as one of its own red mocassins, as treacherous and fascinating.
It was a tangle of cypress and cedar almost thirty miles square, most of it under water—a maze of jungle-covered islands and black bayous. There were alligators and panthers, bear and wild pig. There were groans and grunts and queer cries at night, and silence, dead silence by day.