A collection of stories concerning shunned and disreputable houses.Contents:Nobody's House by A. M. Burrage (1927)The history of a haunted house.A Night of Horror by Dick Donovan (1899)A haunted castle in the hills of Wales.The Room in the Tower by E. F. Benson (1912)A recurring nightmare.The House of the Nightmare by Edward Lucas White (1906)...

Ring Once For Death by Robert Arthur.

The Aggravation Of Elmer by Robert Arthur.

The world would beat a path to Elmer's door—but he had to go carry the door along with him! It was the darnedest traffic jam I'd ever seen in White Plains. For two blocks ahead of me, Main Street was gutter to gutter with stalled cars, trucks and buses. If I hadn't been in such a hurry to get back to the shop, I might have paid more attention. I might have noticed nobody was leaning on his horn. Or that at least a quarter of the drivers were out peering under their hoods. But at the time i...

What if the most infamous occultist of the 18th century found a way to reach across time? Step before the mirror, if you dare, and invite the darkness of Count Cagliostro into your home.The story centers on a man who acquires an antique mirror supposedly once owned by the notorious 18th-century occultist, Count Cagliostro. The man soon discovers that the mirror is a vessel for dark magic, capable of reflecting the spectral image of Cagliostro himself. The protagoni...

A book that vigorously defends heroin users and sex workers? In You Will Die: The Burden of Modern Taboos Robert Arthur does that and more to demonstrate that taboos are not relics of primitive societies. America has its own ridiculous phobias and beliefs that cause tedium, suffering, and death. The government and the media use these taboos to lie and mislead. It is not a conspiracy, but by pushing panic for votes and viewers they thwart our pursuit of happiness.You Will Die expose...

Power Shift presents a detailed blueprint for a clean sustainable energy future based on photovoltaics, using the most compelling arguments for solar energy that have ever been assembled. Power Shift explains to a general audience how energy works and why it determines the future of humankind. It   provides historical background on how the human relationship with energy developed, and how that relationship was gradually taken over by fossil fuels, converting us all into energy co...

What if one of the most quoted letters in the New Testament has also been one of the most misunderstood?For centuries, Paul’s Letter to the Galatians has stood at the center of some of Christianity’s fiercest theological debates. Many have read Galatians as Paul’s great declaration against the Law of Moses. Others, troubled by that interpretation, have gone so far as to question Paul’s authority as an apostle.But what if both conclusions miss the historical...

Creating the 'Big Mess' and its sequel Accounting for Crises use Marx's theory of capitalism to explain why there is no generally accepted theory of financial accounting, and explore the consequences, by studying the history of American accounting theory from c.1900 to 2007. The answer, Creating the 'Big Mess', is first that while late-19th century British accounting principles, founded on the going-concern concept, provided an objective basis for holding management accountable to sharehol...

The voice from the child in the back of the car asked, "Do you know why God made people different colors". This small, easy-to -read book, encapsulates that child's answer to his own question.

First published in 1972, Distribution Theory follows on from the author's earlier book, Descriptive Statistics and Probability Theory, but may easily be followed by any reader who has not studied that particular book but who has gained some knowledge of numerical distributions and basic probability theory. The author has attempted to steer a middle course between those textbooks which concentrate solely on statistical calculations and those which concentrate solely on sta...

It is July 1890 as thirty-seven-year old Vincent van Gogh prepares for his last destination. Soon he plans to leave his tormented earthly life and move forward to a more peaceful place.After Vincent dons his usual paint-splattered clothes and leaves several still-wet canvases behind in his cluttered room, he lovingly places his paint box and easel next to a garden wall, where he hopes someone will find them one day. As he revisits sites he has pained, Vincent touches the metal barr...