Robert W : 999 books

Existing research methods textbooks emphasize the mechanics of HOW to conduct research studies. However, many students fail to see WHY it is important to learn about research because they will never conduct research studies. These students do not become engaged in learning and believe that research...

The author re-read each the four gospels of the New Testament and selected his favorite of Jesus expressions, the parables, to record and to give his interpretation of. The parables are misunderstood by many who try to find the literal meaning of each parable. But each parable is a story with the...

Because it all seems so improbable-so horribly impossible to me now, sitting here safe and sane in my own library-I hesitate to record an episode which already appears to me less horrible than grotesque. Yet, unless this story is written now, I know I shall never have the courage to tell the truth...

CONTENTS   The Repairer Of Reputations The Mask In The Court Of The Dragon The Yellow Sign The Demoiselle D'ys The Prophets' Paradise The Street Of The Four Winds The Street Of The First Shell The Street Of Our Lady Of The...

One of those delightful romances of the outdoors such as only Chambers can write. A dainty love story, transpiring at a duck shooting station on Chesapeake Bay in "blue bird weather"--one of those sudden warm spells in winter that drives the duck far out to sea. A sentimental, sweet novelette.

Valerie West, a young woman quite alone in the world and facing the necessity of self-support, having tried the stage with indifferent success, decides to be an artist's model. Her first experience, when she applies for work at the studio of Louis Neville; her agony of self-consciousness when for...

A beautiful gift edition of this cult classic of supernatural fiction. The weird tales in this slim volume are all linked by a play, the second act of which reveals truths so terrible and beautiful that it drives all who read it to despair: The King in Yellow. These four macabre, uncanny...

The Story of Action & Adventure...

A collection of weird fiction short stories, connected by the theme of a terrible play (to which the title refers) which drives those who read it insane.

As the wind veered and grew cooler a ribbon of haze appeared above the Gulf-stream. Young Hamil, resting on his oars, gazed absently into the creeping mist. Under it the ocean sparkled with subdued brilliancy; through it, shoreward, green palms and palmettos turned silvery; and, as the fog...

The stories feature a man who searches for lost species -- animals not seen for centuries -- and as we follow him on these journeys we're introduced to a variety of amazing creatures including the half-man, half-amphibian called "the harbor master".

A mystery on the Swiss border during the War.