Achmed Abdullah
Legal name: Romanoff, Alexander Nicholayevitch
Birth place: Yalta, Crimea, Ukraine
Birth date: 12 May 1881
Death date: 12 May 1945
Language: English
Bibliographic comments: See also under Asia-specific anthologies.
Biographic comments:
Novels
The Mating of the Blades
1920
< First edition, 1920
The James A. McCann Company
Hardcover, 281 pages
Unknown cover price
Notes:
The Achmed Abdullah Megapack
< First edition, 26 April 2013
Wildside Press
ISBN 978-1-4344-4645-9
Digital
$0.99
Notes:
> Library edition
Fiction: Wings // Light // Fear // The Charmed Life // Framed at the Benefactors Club // Renunciation // Poker //
The Yellow Wife // Bismallah! // A Yarkand Survey // The Incubus // Pro Patria // Pell Street Blues // The Mystery
of the Talking Idols // A Simple Act of Piety // Their Own Dear Land // The Strong Man // Himself to Himself
Enough // Interlude // An Indian Jataka
The Second Achmed Abdullah Megapack
< First edition, 23 October 2013
Wildside Press
No ISBN
Digital
$0.99
Notes:
• Same contents as Alien Souls plus two extra stories.
> Library edition
Fiction: The Evening Rice // The Hatchetman // Feud // Reprisal // The Home-Coming // The Dance on the Hill //
The River of Hate // The Soul of a Turk // Morituri // The Jester // The Strength of the Little Thin Thread // Grafter
and Master Grafter // The Logical Tale of the Four Camels // The Two-Handed Sword // Black Poppies // The
Perfect Way // Tao
Fear and Other Stories from the Pulps
< First edition, 16 August 2005
Wildside Press
ISBN 1-59224-233-2
Hardcover, 228 pages
$35.00
Notes:
• Introduction by Darrell Schweitzer.
Fiction: Fear // Light // The Charmed Life // Framed at the Benefactors Club // Bismallah! // The Yellow Wife // A
Yarkand Survey
Collections
Wings: Tales of the Psychic
1920
< First edition, 1920
The James A. McCann Company
Hardcover, 239 pages
Unknown cover price
Notes:
> Library edition
Fiction: Wings // Disappointment // To Be Accounted For // Tartar // Renunciation // Krishnavana, Destroyer of
Souls // That Haunting Thing // The Man Who Lost Castle // Silence // Khizir // Fear // Light
Night Drums
1921
< First edition, 1921
The James A. McCann Company
Hardcover, 329 pages
Unknown cover price
Notes:
The Thief of Bagdad
1924
< First edition, 1924
A. L. Burt Company
Hardcover, 310 pages
Unknown cover price
Notes:
• Novelization of the film with a screenplay by Elton Thomas, based on a short story version by Lotta Woods.
The Year of the Wood Dragon
1926
< First edition, 1926
Brentano’s
Hardcover, 249 pages
Unknown cover price
Notes:
Flower of the Gods
with Anthony Abbot (Fulton Oursler)
1936
< First edition, 1936
Green Circle Books
Hardcover, 254 pages
Unknown cover price
Notes:
Alien Souls
< First edition, 1922
The James A. McCann Company
Hardcover, 248 pages
Unknown cover price
Notes:
> Library edition
Fiction: Feud // Reprisal // The Home-Coming // The Dance on the Hill // The River of Hate // The Soul of a Turk
// Morituri // The Jester // The Strength of the Little Thin Thread // Grafter and Master Grafter // The Logical Tale of
the Four Camels // The Two-Handed Sword // Black Poppies // The Perfect Way // Tao
Steel and Jade
< First edition, 1927
George H. Doran
Hardcover, 248 pages
Unknown cover price
Notes:
Fiction: The Evening Rice // Flower of Deborah's Choosing // Godless Man // Lute of Jade // Matter of Face //
Musa-of-the-Seven-Goats // Mustaffa-of-the-Tricks // Roads of His Feet // The Tale the Drum Told // The Way of
the Grey Hills // When My Caravan Comes In // The Woman of the Benni Fukara
The Honourable Gentleman and Others
1919
< First edition, 1919
Putnam
Hardcover, 286 pages
Unknown cover price
Notes:
> Library edition
Fiction: The Honourable Gentleman // The Hatchetman // A Pell Street Spring Song // Cobbler's Wax // After His
Kind // A Simple Act of Piety // Himself, to Himself Enough
Mysteries of Asia
< First edition, March 1935
Philip Allan
Hardcover, 256 pages
Unknown cover price
Notes:
Fiction: The Magic of the Cannibal // Sacrifice to the Black One // Serpent Gold // Mystery and a Mannikin // The
Death Beam // Mermen of Sulaiman // The Dark Bungalow Ghost // The Krait // Her Blood for Hindu Goddess //
The Haunted Carpet // The Ghosts of Rau Samandar // The Magic Horse of Afghan Glens // The Human Oil Curse
// The Ebon Well // Ghostly Inheritance
