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ACHMED ABDULLAH
b.1881 d.1945
Abdullah was the Moslem name of Alexander Romanowski, a pulp magazine adventure writer whose Wings: Tales of the Psychic (1920) is his best collection of supernatural stories. The rest of his work is colourful adventure, with only occassional elemets of fantasy. He achieved Hollywood success with The Thief of Bagdad (1924), the novelisation of a filmscript by Elton Thomas and Lotta Woods. He also edited Fifty Enthralling Stories of the Mysterious East, Odhams (London), nd.
 
Short Stories
Wings: Tales of the Psychic, James A. McCann (New York), 1920
Including: "Disappointment", "Fear", "Krishnavana, Destroyer of Souls", "Khizir", "Light", "The Man Who Lost Caste", "Renunciation", "Silence", "Tartar", "That Haunting Thing", "To Be Accounted For", "Wings".
 
Mysteries of Asia, P. Allen (London), 1935
  (subtitled "Devilry and the Occult". 15 short stories published by Philip Allan in their "Creeps" series, but unlike most of the series which featured contributions by "various authors", this volume was solely the work of Abdullah. Several other authors also had single collections in the series, most notably - Vivian Meik, Christopher Blayre & L.A. Lewis.
Includes: "The Magic of the Cannibal", "Sacrifice to the Black One", "Serpent Gold", "Mystery and a Mannikin", "The Death-Beam", "Mermen of Sulaiman", "The Dak Bungalow Ghost", "The Krait", "Her Blood For Hindu Goddess", "The Haunted Carpet", "The Ghosts of Rau Samandar", "The Magic House in Afghan Glens", "The Human Oil Cure", "The Ebon Well", "Ghostly Inheritance".)
 
Novel
The Thief of Bagdad, H. K. Fly (New York), [1924]
The thief Ahmed el-Bagdadi falls in love with the Caliph's daughter. To win her hand he must bring a better gift than other suitors, and along the way defeat his evil potentialities. Many supernatutal devices are emplyed along the way.
ditto, Burt, 1924
 
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