Reading, Short And Deep #067 – Fear by Achmed Abdullah

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Reading, Short And DeepReading, Short And Deep #067

Eric S. Rabkin and Jesse Willis discuss Fear by Achmed Abdullah

Here’s a link to a PDF of the story.

Fear was first published in Detective Story Magazine, February 4, 1919.

Posted by Scott D. Danielson

LibriVox: Fear by Achmed Abdullah

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Wow! I’m loving this story, as narrated by John Feaster. Sez Feaster of his narration “it’s more a performance than a reading” and that’s absolutely true – Feaster seems to be taking the events of the plot very personally, and that lends power to what is the sort of twistily fantastic tale you’d see on something like Alfred Hitchcock Presents. And yet, Achmed Abdullah’s pulpy writing seems damned good too!

And, if even half the stories about the author, as detailed over on the Wikipedia entry for him, are true, he may be one of the most fascinating writers I’d never heard of.

Alexander Nicholayevitch Romanoff (aka Achmed Abdullah) was, apparently, a Russian born relative of the last Czar, the son of an Afghan princess, an Academy Award nominated scriptwriter, an officer in the British, Indian, and Turkish armies (serving in India, Afghanistan, Tibet, Africa, China, and Turkey), as well as being a Muslim, a Catholic, and a spy!

LibriVoxFear
By Achmed Abdullah; Read by John Feaster
1 |MP3| – Approx. 22 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: LibriVox.org
Published: June 19, 2010
First published in Detective Story Magazine, 1919.

[Thanks to Julie Hoverson for the recommendation!]

Posted by Jesse Willis