The Achmed Abdullah Megapack

Our fourth volume of Achmed Abdullah's collected works presents 15 more tales of mystery, adventure, and romance. Includes an introduction by Darrell Schweitzer.

If you've picked up this volume, you may already be familiar with Achmed Abdullah's work from the first volume, "The Achmed Abdullah Megapack." If not, no harm done; both Megapacks contain short stories which can be read in any order. The only real difference is that Volume 1 contains quite a few supernatural stories, while Volume 2 focuses more on "contemporary" (early 1900s) life in exotic locales, like the Middle East, China, and New York City (primarily in Chinatown). Crime is frequently touched upon; many of these stories qualify as mysteries. Included: THE EVENING RICE THE HATCHETMAN 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 A note for the sensitive: Some of these stories are not "politically correct" by today’s standards. Please keep in mind that Abdullah was writing in a different age, with different standards of propriety. The world has changed a lot in the last 100 years. And if you enjoy this Megapack, please take a look at the many others available...search this ebook store for "Wildside Megapack" to see the list -- mysteries, adventure, horror, science fiction, westerns, humor, and many more subjects and authors are available. (And always at a bargain price!)

Our third collection of Achmed Abdullah's classic fiction presents 15 more great pulp tales, mixing crime, mystery, historical adventure, and romance in exotic settings. Here are:

A WOMAN OF THE BENNI-FUHARA
COBBLER’S WAX
DELIGHTFUL LAN-FANG FOR THREE CAMELS MOST JUST AMONG MOSLEMS A MATTER OF FACE HOUND OF THE WILDERNESS BLACK LILY AFTER YOUTH< ACCORDING TO HERBERT SPENCER A FULL HOUSE HENRI ALWAYS SAYS SO! THE VICTORY AS HE REAPED MONSIEUR LE MARQUIS IS NOT AT HOME

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Achmed Abdullah wrote for the pulp magazines of the early 20th century, becoming one of the most popular and talented writers of the field. His exotic locales and vivid characterizations made him highly sought after. Now, The Achmed Abdullah Megapack collects 20 of his classic stories, ranging from fantasy and ghost stories to mystery and adventure. Great tales from a forgotten master! Included are: INTRODUCTION, by Darrell Schweitzer WINGS LIGHT FEAR THE CHARMED LIFE FRAMED AT THE BENEFACTORS CLUB RENUNCIATION POKER THE YELLOW WIFE BISMILLAH! A YARKAND SURVEY THE INCUBUS PRO PATRIA PELL STREET BLUES THE MYSTERY OF THE TALKING IDOLS A SIMPLE ACT OF PIETY THEIR OWN DEAR LAND THE STRONG MAN HIMSELF TO HIMSELF ENOUGH INTERLUDE AN INDIAN JATAKA And don't forget to search this ebook store for "Wildside Megapack" to see all the entries in the Megapack series -- including volumes of science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, westerns, classics, and much, much more!

This study examines the way Americans of Chinese descent were portrayed in American literature between 1850 and 1940. Their depictions are compared to historical events that were occurring at the time the works of literature were published. This edition has additions and corrections compared to the original hardback edition published in 1982. ~~~~~ Excerpt ~~~~~ My purpose in writing this work has been to explore the depiction of Chinese immigrants and their descendants in American fiction, from the mid-nineteenth century entry of the first Chinese immigrants in significant numbers, to the eve of World War II. I consider both the immigrant Chinese and the American-born generations that followed them to be Chinese Americans, but will sometimes identify the groups separately in recognition of the fact that the historical experience and treatment of the immigrants in fiction has been different from that of their descendants. The fiction treated in this study includes short stories and novels both by white Americans and Asian Americans. I am defining the term Yellow Peril as the threat to the United States that some white American authors believed was posed by the people of East Asia. As a literary theme, the fear of this threat focuses on specific issues, including possible military invasion from Asia, perceived competition to the white labor force from Asian workers, the alleged moral degeneracy of Asian people, and the potential genetic mixing of Anglo-Saxons with Asians, who were considered a biologically inferior race by some intellectuals of the nineteenth century. The Chinese immigrants were the first target of this attention, since they were the first Asian immigrants to reach the United States in large numbers. This study will focus on American fiction about Chinese Americans in an attempt to analyze the growth and development of attitudes about them. My thesis is that the Yellow Peril is the overwhelmingly dominant theme in American fiction about Chinese Americans in the years with which this study is concerned. It is expressed through the variety of images of the Chinese Americans that appear, especially in their relation to, and their role as part of, the United States. The historical causes and literary subject matter change, but the theme neither disappears nor abates. Each work of fiction has been studied individually for the images it contains. Prior to the turn of the century, the Yellow Peril is perceived only as stemming from the Chinese. In the twentieth century, especially in the pulps, the Japanese joined the Chinese as a perceived menace to Europe and North America. The overall process of evaluation relies primarily on detailed analyses of the characters under consideration. This has been done with an awareness that the American public as a whole sometimes did not distinguish carefully among Asian ethnic groups, so that events involving one Asian ethnic group often affected the image of another. Some works are obscure and these have been quoted at greater length than more available ones. Relatively few critical sources have been cited; this is due to a dearth of relevant studies. The less important works of fiction have naturally received little critical attention and, often, when such attention was concerned with pertinent stories, the authors had little or nothing to say about the depiction of Chinese Americans. This observation is intended only as an explanation, and not as a value judgement of earlier scholarship with different goals.

When you think of the pulp magazines that flourished in the first half of the 20th century, it’s hard not to think of adventure—the term “pulp fiction” these days has come to mean slam-bang action. That’s what this volume of our MEGAPACK® is here to celebrate: great adventure stories. Included are: HE SWALLOWS GOLD, by H. Bedford-Jones PLANE JANE by Frederick C. Davis ARCTIC ANGELS, by A. DeHerries Smith THE TAKING OF CLOUDY McGEE, by W.C. Tuttle ESPECIALLY DANCE HALL WOMEN by Alma and Paul Ellerbe ISLAND HONOR, by Murray Leinster NERVE ENOUGH, by Richard Howells Watkins BY ORDER OF BUCK BRADY, by W.C. Tuttle CODE, by L. Paul SALVAGE, by Roy Norton THE LUCKY LITTLE STIFF, by H.P.S. Greene WHEN EVERYBODY KNEW, by Raymond S. Spears THE SOUL OF HENRY JONES, by Ray Cummings THEN LUCK CAME IN, by Andrew A. Caffrey TOO MUCH PROGRESS FOR PIPEROCK, by W.C. Tuttle

The Damon Knight Science Fiction MEGAPACK® showcases the early pulp magazine work of Damon Knight, one of the most acclaimed and influential voices in the science fiction field from the 1950s onward. Here are 10 classic tales of aliens, interplanetary adventure, exploration, and more as only a Grand Master could write them. Included are: “Doorway To Kal-jmar” “A Likely Story” “The Earth Quarter” “Definition” “The Avenger” “Special Delivery” “The Star Beast” “The Beachcomber” “The Third Little Green Man” “The Worshippers” If you enjoy this volume in the best-selling MEGAPACK® series, search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press MEGAPACK" to see the complete list of more than 400 available titles, covering not just science fiction, but fantasy, adventure, mysteries...and much, much more!

The horse has been championed throughout history as a war machine, a means of transport, an adjunct to farming, a source of popular entertainment, and, finally, as a true friend and companion. So it's no surprise that writers throughout history have featured the horse prominently in their fiction. Here are 25 stories and 5 poems of equine fiction and literature, from Anna Sewell's Black Beauty to classic tales by Arthur Conan Doyle, Mark Twain, Jonathan Swift, and many others! Included are: Black Beauty, by Anna Sewell The Man from Snowy River, by A. B. Paterson [poem] Chu Chu, by Bret Harte John G., by Katherine Mayo Gulliver's Travels: A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms, by Jonathan Swift How the Old Horse Won the Bet, by Oliver Wendell Holmes [poem] A Horse's Tale, by Mark Twain The Talking Horse, by F. Anstey Samuel Cowles and His Horse Royal, by Eugene Field A Horseman in the Sky, by Ambrose Bierce The Dun Horse, by George Bird Grinnell The Enchanted Horse, by Amy Steedman At Galway Races, by William Butler Yeats [poem] A Ride with a Mad Horse in a Freight-Car, by W. H. H. Murray Buying a Horse, by William Dean Howells Skipper: Being the Biography of a Blue-Ribboner, by Sewell Ford The Instinct of Animals: Horses, by Thomas Bingley A Night Among the Horses, by Djuna Barnes He Walked Around the Horses, by H. Beam Piper The Horse of the Invisible, by William Hope Hodgson Miles Keogh's Horse, by John Hay [poem] The War Horse of Alexander, by Plutarch, edited by Andrew Lang Heads and Tales: The Horse," edited by Adam White Heart Bar Johnny, by Mary Wickizer Burgess Lady Clare: The Story of a Horse, by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen Zadig: The Dog and the Horse, by Voltaire My First Horse Surgery, by Mark E. Burgess Silver Blaze, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Ballad of the Drover, by Henry Lawson [poem] Horse Latitudes: Return to the Country of the Houyhnhnms, by Robert Reginald And don't forget to search this ebook store for "Wildside Megapack" to see more entries in the series, covering everything from animal stories to classics to science fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories...and much, much more!