Author:Achmed Abdullah

Achmed Abdullah
(1881–1945)

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) (start transcription)
  • 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)