Author:Achmed Abdullah

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Achmed Abdullah (1881–1945)

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American writer of mystery, crime, and adventure pulps. He earned an Academy Award nomination for collaborating on the screenplay to the 1935 film The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

Works

Novels

• Bucking the Tiger (1917)
• The Man on Horseback (1919)
• The Thief of Bagdad (1924) (transcription project)
• The Mating of the Blades (1920)
• The Remittance-Woman (1924)
• The Swinging Caravan (1911)
• The Red Stain (1915)
• The Blue-Eyed Manchu (1916)
• The Trail of the Beast (1919)
• The Ten-foot Chain, or, Can Love Survive the Shackles? (1920) (with Max Brand, E. K. Means, P. P. Sheehan) (start transcription)
• The Benefactor's Club (1921)
• Night Drums (1921)
• Shackled (1924) (start transcription)
• A Buccaneer in Spats (1924)
• A Wild Goose of Limerick (1926)
• The Year of the Wood Dragon (1926)
• Steel and Jade (1927)
• Dreamers of Empire (1929) (with T. Compton Pakenham)
• Broadway Interlude (1929) (with Faith Baldwin)
• They Were So Young (1929)
• Broadway Sensation (1930) (with Faith Baldwin)
• The Bungalow on the Roof (1931)
• The Lady in the Veil a.k.a The Veiled Woman (1931)
• Girl on the Make (1932) (with Faith Baldwin)
• A Romantic Young Man (1932)
• Fighting Through (1933)
• The Flower of the Gods (1936) (with Fulton Oursler)
• Deliver Us from Evil (1939)

Short stories and collections

• Fear and Other Stories (1919? 2006?) PG (Au.)
  • Fear — The Incubus — Pro Patria — Pell Street Blues — Mystery of the Talking Idols — The Charmed Life — A Simple Act of Piety
• The Honourable Gentleman and Others (1919)
  • 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
• Wings: Tales of the Psychic (1920) (transcription project)
  • Wings — Disappointment — To Be Accounted For — Tartar — Renunciation — Krishnavana, Destroyer of Souls — That Haunting Thing — The Man Who Lost Caste — Silence — Khizr — Fear — Light
• Alien Souls (1922)
  • 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

Short stories from magazines

• "Strength of the Little Thin Thread" (1912, Collier's) [included in Alien Souls]
• "Feud" (1916, The Century Magazine)
• "The Fetish of Remorse" (1916, All-Story Weekly)
• "The Home-Coming" (1917, Harper's Monthly) [included in Alien Souls]
• "After Youth" (1918, The Forum)
• "Bibi—His Mark" (1918 All-Story Weekly) (novelette)
• "Cobbler's Wax" (1918, Century) [included in The Honourable Gentleman and Others]
• "The Dance on the Hill" (1918, Harper's Monthly) [included in Alien Souls]
• "Thingumajee Thingumabob Jones" (1918, McClure's)
• "The Yellow Wife" (1919, Munsey's)
• "Fear" (1919, Detective Story)
• "A Full House" (1919, People's magazine)
• "The Incubus" (1920, The Blue Book)
• "Lucifer" (1923, Everybody's)
• "Once It Happened in the Black Tents" (1923, McCall's )
• "Pro Patria" (1918, People's Favourite, )
• "A Simple Act of Piety" (1918, All Story Weekly) [included in The Honourable Gentleman and Others]
• "The Adventures of Million Dollar Smith" (1925 June-Aug, Everybody's) (3-part novelette / linked short stories)
  • "The First Hundred Thousand — The Second Hundred Thousand — The Million