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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      Note: we only consider stories that have already been professionally published. This is not a market for new works.

      TYPOS

      Unfortunately, as hard as we try, a few typos do slip through. We update our ebooks periodically, so make sure you have the current version (or download a fresh copy if it’s been sitting in your ebook reader for months.) It may have already been updated.

      If you spot a new typo, please let us know. We’ll fix it for everyone. You can email the publisher at [email protected] or use the message boards above.

      —John Betancourt

      Publisher, Wildside Press LLC

      www.wildsidepress.com

      THE MEGAPACK SERIES

      The Adventure Megapack

      The Baseball Megapack

      The Boys’ Adventure Megapack

      The Buffalo Bill Megapack

      The Christmas Megapack

      The Second Christmas Megapack

      The Classic American Short Story Megapack

      The Classic Humor Megapack

      The Dan Carter, Cub Scout Megapack

      The Cowboy Megapack

      The Craig Kennedy Scientific Detective Megapack

      The Cthulhu Mythos Megapack

      The Dan Carter, Cub Scout Megapack

      The Detective Megapack

      The Father Brown Megapack

      The Ghost Story Megapack

      The Second Ghost Story Megapack

      The Third Ghost Story Megapack

      The Horror Megapack

      The Macabre Megapack

      The Second Macabre Megapack

      The Martian Megapack

      The Military Megapack

      The Mummy Megapack

      The First Mystery Megapack

      The Penny Parker Megapack

      The Pulp Fiction Megapack

      The Rover Boys Megapack

      The Science Fiction Megapack

      The Second Science Fiction Megapack

      The Third Science Fiction Megapack

      The Fourth Science Fiction Megapack

      The Fifth Science Fiction Megapack

      The Sixth Science Fiction Megapack

      The Penny Parker Megapack

      The Pinocchio Megapack

      The Steampunk Megapack

      The Tom Corbett, Space Cadet Megapack

      The Tom Swift Megapack

      The Vampire Megapack

      The Victorian Mystery Megapack

      The Werewolf Megapack

      The Western Megapack

      The Second Western Megapack

      The Wizard of Oz Megapack

      AUTHOR MEGAPACKS

      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

      The G.A. Henty Megapack

      The M.R. James Megapack

      The Andre Norton Megapack

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