The Achmed Abdullah MEGAPACK ®

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Achmed Abdullah. The Achmed Abdullah MEGAPACK ®

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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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Again the woman’s light laughter. Her words:

“Keep quiet, sahib, lest the walnut-dye enter thy eye!” And ten minutes later the zenana curtains were drawn aside to admit once more the Afghan, arm in arm with a middle-aged, dignified Brahman priest, complete in every detail of outer sacerdotal craft, from the broidered skull-cap and the brilliant caste-mark on his forehead to the patent-leather pumps, the open-work white stockings, and the sacred volume bound in red Bokhara leather that he carried in his right hand.

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