The Achmed Abdullah MEGAPACK ®. Achmed Abdullah
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COPYRIGHT INFO
The Achmed Abdullah Megapack is copyright © 2013 by Wildside Press LLC.
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“Introduction” is copyright © 2004 by Wildside Press. “Wings” originally appeared in All-Story Weekly August 10, 1918. “Light” originally appeared in All-Story Weekly, May 18, 1918. “Fear” originally appeared in Detective Story Magazine, February 4, 1919. “The Charmed Life” originally appeared in All-Story Weekly, September 22, 1917. “Framed at the Benefactor’s Club” originally appeared in Detective Story Magazine, April 16, 1921. “Renunciation” originally appeared in Munsey’s Magazine, March 1919. “Poker” originally appeared in “The Yellow Wife” originally appeared in Munsey’s Magazine, July 1919. “Bismallah!” originally appeared in Argosy-Allstory Weekly, June 11, 1921. “A Yarkand Survey” originally appeared in The Argosy, July 20, 1918. “The Incubus” originally appeared in Blue Book Magazine, April 1920.“Pro Patria” originally appeared in People’s Favorite Magazine, December 10, 1918. “Pell Street Blues” originally appeared in Blue Book Magazine, March 1935. “The Mystery of the Talking Idols” originally appeared in Triple X, May 1929.“A Simple Act of Piety” originally appeared in All-Story Weekly, April 20, 1918. “Their Own Dear Land” originally appeared in Blue Book Magazine, January 1943. “The Strong Man” originally appeared in The Elks Magazine, July 1928. “Himself to Himself Enough” originally appeared in All-Story Weekly, March 15, 1919. “Interlude” originally appeared in Collier’s Weekly, May 7, 1927. “An Indian Jataka” originally appeared in The Ten-foot Chain (1920).
A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER
Achmed Abdullah may seem an odd (and perhaps less-than-commercial) choice for an Author megapack, considering how little-known he is to modern readers. However, I am a big fan of his work, and I have been promoting him to anyone who will listen for the last decade or so. His fantasies and ghost stories are particularly well done—and the exotic settings he sometimes employs are better realized than most pulp writers’ visions of the Exotic East because (as his name may hint) he had lived in the places of which he wrote. If this is your first taste of his fiction, I can pretty well guarantee that it won’t be his last. (Check out all the novels by Achmed Abdullah that Wildside Press now has in print and see if you can resist snacking on one or two!)
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Over the last year, our “Megapack” series of ebook anthologies has proved to be one of our most popular endeavors. (Maybe it helps that we sometimes offer them as premiums to our mailing list!) One question we keep getting asked is, “Who’s the editor?”
The Megapacks (except where specifically credited) are a group effort. Everyone at Wildside works on them. This includes John Betancourt, Carla Coupe, Steve Coupe, Bonner Menking, Colin Azariah-Kribbs, A.E. Warren, and many of Wildside’s authors…who often suggest stories to include (and not just their own!).
A NOTE FOR KINDLE READERS
The Kindle versions of our Megapacks employ active tables of contents for easy navigation…please look for one before writing reviews on Amazon that complain about the lack! (They are sometimes at the ends of ebooks, depending on your reader.)
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TYPOS
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—John Betancourt
Publisher, Wildside Press LLC
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The Achmed Abdullah Megapack
The Edward Bellamy Megapack
The E.F. Benson Megapack
The Second E.F. Benson Megapack
The B.M. Bower Megapack
The First Reginald Bretnor Megapack
The Wilkie Collins Megapack
The Philip K. Dick Megapack
The Jacques Futrelle Megapack
The Randall Garrett Megapack
The Second Randall Garrett Megapack
The C.J. Henderson Megapack
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The M.R. James Megapack
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