Author:Achmed Abdullah

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Achmed Abdullah
(1881–1945)

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American Oriental scholar and 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

Achmed Abdullah

Works

Novels

Bucking the Tiger (1917)
The Man on Horseback (1919)
The Mating of the Blades (1920)
The Ten-foot Chain, or, Can Love Survive the Shackles? (1920) (with Max Brand, E. K. Means, P. P. Sheehan) (start transcription)
The Thief of Bagdad (1924) (transcription project)
The Remittance-Woman (1924)
Shackled (1924) (start transcription)

The Red Stain (1915)
The Blue-Eyed Manchu (1916)
The Trail of the Beast (1919)
The Benefactor's Club (1921)
Night Drums (1921)
A Buccaneer in Spats (1924) (as a 6-part serial in All-Story Weekly, 1919–20)
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 — Tales of the Psychic/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
The Swinging Caravan (1925)
- A Gesture of No Importance — The Great Wife — Slit-Eye — The Gates of Tamerlane — Decadence — Bred in the Clay — Most Just Among Moslims — The Rest is Silence — Victory — Romance — Dutiful Grief
Steel and Jade (1927)
- Steel and Jade — When My Caravan Comes In — Mustaffa-of-the-Tricks — The Evening Rice • (1920) — The Tale the Drum Told • (1922) — The Godless Man — A Woman of the Benni-Fuhara • (1925) — The Way of the Grey Hills — A Matter of Face • (1922) — The Lute of Jade — A Flower of Deborah's Choosing • (1923) — Musa-of-the-Seven-Goats — The Road of His Feet

Works from magazines

Fiction

"Strength of the Little Thin Thread" (1912, Collier's) [included in Alien Souls]
"For Three Camels" (1912 Dec, The Smart Set) (ss)
"The Last Word" (1914 Oct 03, Harper's Weekly) (ss)
"Delightful Lan-fang" (1914 Dec, The Smart Set) (ss)
"The Infidel," ( 1915 Jan, Lippincott's Magazine) (ss)
"The Purple Palette of Life" (1915 Feb, The Smart Set) (ss)
"The Rock Whence Ye Were Hewn," (1915 Feb, Lippincott's Magazine) (ss)
"The Flowering Stone," (1915 April, Lippincott's Magazine) (ss)
"Black Lily" (1915 July, Lippincott's Magazine) (ss)
"The Man Who Wished" (1915 Sept, McBride's Magazine) (ss)
"Feud" (1916, The Century Magazine) [included in Alien Souls]
"The Fetish of Remorse" (1916, All-Story Weekly)
"The Home-Coming" (1917, Harper's Monthly) [included in Alien Souls]
"The Guerdon" (1917 Feb, The Smart Set) (ss)
"Henry Always Says So!" (1917 March, The Smart Set) (ss)
"The Commonsense of Monsieur Lebel" (1917 April, The Smart Set) (ss)
"Mr. Jimmy Delane of Broadway" (1917 May, Smart Set) (ss)
"As He Reaped" (1917 July, Ainslee's Magazine) (ss)
"Monsieur le Marquis is Not at Home" (1917 Oct, Smart Set) (ss)
"The Stolen Apples System" (1917 Nov, The Smart Set) (ss)
"The Gamut" (1917 Dec, The Smart Set) (ss)
"After Youth" (1918, The Forum)
"Cobbler's Wax" (1918, Century Magazine) [included in The Honourable Gentleman and Others]
"The Dance on the Hill" (1918, Harper's Monthly) [included in Alien Souls] (ss)
"Thingumajee Thingumabob Jones" (1918, McClure's Magazine)
"Pro Patria" (1918, People's Favourite)
"A Simple Act of Piety" (1918, All Story Weekly) [included in The Honourable Gentleman and Others]
"After His Kind" ((1919 May, Ainslee's Magazine) (ss)
"Fear" (1919, The Detective Story Magazine) [included in Fear and Other Stories] (ss)
"The Yellow Wife" (1919, Munsey's Magazine) (ss)
"According to Herbert Spencer" (1919 March 1, All-Story Weekly) (ss)
"A Full House" (1919, People's magazine) (ss)
"The Broadway of It" (1920 Oct, Munsey's Magazine) (ss)
"The Incubus" (1920, The Blue Book) [included in Fear and Other Stories] (ss)
"The Evening Rice" (1921, in The Stories Editors Buy and Why. Reprinted from Pictorial Review, June 1920.) (ss)
"A Matter of Face" (1922, McCall's Magazine) (ss)
"Most Just Among Moslems" (1922 July, Cosmopolitan) (ss) [included in The Swinging Caravan]
"The Tale the Drum Told" (1922 Aug, Cosmopolitan) (ss)
"The Sacrifice" (1923 Feb, The Rotarian) (ss)
" A Flower of Deborah's Choosing" (1923 Feb, Hearst's International) (ss)
"Lucifer" (1923, Everybody's Magazine) (ss)
"Once It Happened in the Black Tents" (1923, McCall's Magazine) (ss)
"The Victory" (1924 July, Harper's Bazaar) (ss)
"Hound of the Wilderness" (1925 Feb, McCall's Magazine) (ss)
"A Woman of the Benni-Fuhara" (1925 Oct 10, McCall's Magazine) (ss)

Longer works

"Bibi—His Mark" (1918 All-Story Weekly) (novelette)
"Framed at the Benefactors Club" (1921 April 16, Detective Story) (novella)
"The Remittance Woman (Everybody's 1922)," (1922 July, Everybody's Magazine; book, 1924) (novella)
"You Two and We Two" (1924 April, Smart Set) (novelette)
"The Veiled Woman" (1924 Aug, McCall's Magazine) (novelette)
"The Adventures of Million Dollar Smith" (1925 June-Aug, Everybody's) (3-part novelette / linked short stories)

Others

"The Senussyehs" (The Forum, 1914 May) essay
"Seen Through Mohammedan Spectacles" (The Forum, 1914 Oct) essay
"Asia and the War" (Harper's Weekly, 1915 Dec) essay
"The Soul of Pekin" (1916 Aug, Smart Set) (essay)
"New York" (1917 July, Smart Set) (essay)
"Batoum. An Impression in Civilization" (1917 Nov, The Forum) (article)
"Misrepresenting India" (review of New Cambridge History of India. Vol I—Ancient India by E. J. Rapson) (1922 Nov 15, The Nation) (review)
"In the Matter of a Little Brown Girl-Child" (1919 May, The New Red Cross Magazine) (article)
"A Persian Symphony" (1919 Aug, The New Red Cross Magazine) (article)
"An Afghan in America" (1916 Feb, Vanity Fair) (humor; possibly fiction)
"The Afghan to His Chosen One" translation of poem by Kushal Khan (1925 Sept, The Golden Book Magazine)

About Abdullah

"Sheykh Achmed Abdullah" (1915 May, Extract from "Editorial Confidences" in Lippincott's Magazine)
"Who's Who Among Authors: Achmed Abdullah" (The Bookman, 1920 Aug)

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1927.

The author died in 1945, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 75 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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