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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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Over the last year, our “Megapack” series of ebook anthologies has proved to be one of our most popular endeavors. (Maybe it helps that we sometimes offer them as premiums to our mailing list!) One question we keep getting asked is, “Who’s the editor?”

The Megapacks (except where specifically credited) are a group effort. Everyone at Wildside works on them. This includes John Betancourt, Carla Coupe, Steve Coupe, Bonner Menking, Colin Azariah-Kribbs, A.E. Warren, and many of Wildside’s authors…who often suggest stories to include (and not just their own!).

A NOTE FOR KINDLE READERS

The Kindle versions of our Megapacks employ active tables of contents for easy navigation…please look for one before writing reviews on Amazon that complain about the lack! (They are sometimes at the ends of ebooks, depending on your reader.)

RECOMMEND A FAVORITE STORY?

Do you know a great classic science fiction story, or have a favorite author whom you believe is perfect for the Megapack series? We’d love your suggestions! You can post them on our message board at http://movies.ning.com/forum (there is an area for Wildside Press comments).

Note: we only consider stories that have already been professionally published. This is not a market for new works.

TYPOS

Unfortunately, as hard as we try, a few typos do slip through. We update our ebooks periodically, so make sure you have the current version (or download a fresh copy if it’s been sitting in your ebook reader for months.) It may have already been updated.

If you spot a new typo, please let us know. We’ll fix it for everyone. You can email the publisher at wildsidepress@yahoo.com or use the message boards above.

—John Betancourt

Publisher, Wildside Press LLC

www.wildsidepress.com