The Shadow of the East is a 1921 romance novel by the British author Edith Maud Hull.American Silent Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Feature Films, 1913-1929. p.512Kuehn p.221 The American edition was first published by A. L. Burt of Boston.
Film adaptation In the wake of the successful screen adaptation of another of Hull's novels The Sheik it was adapted into a 1924 film The Shadow of the Desert by Fox Film. Directed by George Archainbaud it starred Frank Mayo, Mildred Harris and Norman Kerry.Goble p.233
References
Bibliography Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. Kuehn, Julia. A Female Poetics of Empire: From Eliot to Woolf. Routledge, 2013. Soister, John T. Nicolella, Henry & Joyce, Steve. American Silent Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Feature Films, 1913-1929. McFarland, 2014.