This volume features 23 short stories full of adventure and mystery, by one of the most enigmatic characters to visit the Hollywood of the 30's: Achmed Abdullah. Noted for his pulp stories of crime, mystery and adventure, he wrote some succesful screenplays for films. But it was his personal life, surrounded by mystery, and his claims of descending from the Romanovs of Russia and Afghan royalty (spread by his autobiography), that made him most famous, in a time when wild claims could not be discredited by the Internet.
The stories are: BOOK ONE FEAR AND OTHER STORIES (7 SHORT STORIES) 1. FEAR 2. THE INCUBUS 3. PRO PATRIA 4. PELL STREET BLUES 5. THE MYSTERY OF THE TALKING IDOLS 6. THE CHARMED LIFE CHAPTER I - The Meeting CHAPTER II - The Call CHAPTER III - A Fool's Heart CHAPTER IV - Depths CHAPTER V - Nerves CHAPTER VI - Out--And In CHAPTER VII - The Miracle CHAPTER VIII - Brahman Truth 7. A SIMPLE ACT OF PIETY
BOOK TWO ALIEN SOULS (15 SHORT STORIES) 1. FEUD 2. REPRISAL 3. THE HOME-COMING 4. THE DANCE ON THE HILL 5. THE RIVER OF HATE 6. THE SOUL OF A TURK 7. MORITURI 8. THE JESTER 9. THE STRENGTH OF THE LITTLE THIN THREAD 10. GRAFTER AND MASTER GRAFTER 11. THE LOGICAL TALE OF THE FOUR CAMELS 12. THE TWO-HANDED SWORD 13. BLACK POPPIES 14. THE PERFECT WAY 15. TAO