Wings: Tales of the Psychic

by Achmed Abdullah

Abdullah was the Moslem name of Alexander Romanowski, a pulp magazine adventure writer whose Wings: Tales of the Psychic (1920) is his best collection of supernatural stories.

Including: "Disappointment", "Fear", "Krishnavana, Destroyer of Souls", "Khizir", "Light", "The Man Who Lost Caste", "Renunciation", "Silence", "Tartar", "That Haunting Thing", "To Be Accounted For", "Wings"

Hardcover

First published June 28, 2003

About the author

Achmed Abdullah, a pseudonym of Alexander Nicholayevitch Romanoff, was born of a Russian Orthodox father and a Muslim mother. He was raised in Britain and educated at Eton and Oxford. He served in the British Army in France, China and India. He is most noted for his pulp stories of crime, mystery and adventure. He wrote screenplays for some successful films. He was the author of the progressive Siamese drama Chang, an Academy Award nominated film made in 1927. He earned an Academy Award nomination for collaborating on the screenplay to the 1935 film The Lives of a Bengal Lancer.

Reviews

[Alexandria Avona · Rating 5 out of 5]

This selection reads like a combination between a somber, luring string section oozing up into a gleaming melody that can make your heart remember itself and a styxian potion that is both sweet and ominous. I haven't read more gorgeous prose than this in quite awhile. Definitely a hidden treasure and a true gem.