Books with author William Archer

"With all the dreams I’ve been having, there is one thing I can take comfort in. And that’s the fact they are my dreams. If they weren’t my dreams, if they weren’t something I decided, subconsciously even, that is when I would start to be truly worried."I now know what I need to do to make the dream go away."A priest hangs stripped and crucified on the wall of an abandoned brewery - the first in a series of grisly murders plaguing the city of Courtsdale. A recurring nightmare of blood, intimacy and death haunts the dreams of investigative journalist Steven Carvelle.Someone stalks the city, and with inside access from Detective Kevin Miles, Steven investigates - searching on his own for the connection tying the terrifying events together.But as the search unfolds and the murders strike closer and closer to home, Steven comes to the terrifying realization that the killings bear an uncanny resemblance to his dreams.Is it connection? Or coincidence?What is the THE TROUBLE WITH BEING GOD?An utterly gripping ride for readers who love Stephen King, Chuck Pahlaniuk and Peter Straub. You will be questioning your own sanity once you discover this gritty, twisted and unputdownable crime thriller. What readers are saying about THE TROUBLE WITH BEING GOD:"... the kind of twisted reality I really enjoy reading.""[an] inner journey of our own occasional brutal thoughts and passions and how we choose to manage them.""You can't cover your eyes and say to the person next to you "I'm not looking, tell me when it's over" - you're screwed, once you read it, it's in there.""A strange but incredibly fascinating book.""You think you figure it out halfway through, but there's a twist on the very last page that really gets your brain going. This is one I'll be thinking about for a while, for sure.""Aicher’s skill at being able to plunge the knife deeper into his readers’ hearts when the death toll begins to climb, and people start showing their true colors shines a light on his creativeness and his overall understanding of the internal workings of man."This SPECIAL 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION includes additional, never-before seen scenes, the "lost" original ending, and an all-new afterword by the author!

In 1861 William Bircher joined the Union Army to help fight the Civil War. Too young to be a soldier, William was a drummer. He witnessed the many hardships of war long marches, severe cold, hunger, disease, and the great loss of lives. Through it all, 15 year old William recorded his experiences in his diary. Follow his story of challenges and triumphs.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ... ACT SECOND A spacious and well-proportioned room, opening at the back upon a wide loggia. Beyond the loggia can be seen distant snow-peaks and a strip of sky. Late afternoon light. The room is furnished in a once splendid but now very old-fashioned and faded style. Furniture of black picked out with gold, and upholstered in yellow damask. A great crystal chandelier in the middle of the ceiling, and under it a circular ottoman. Right, a large two-leaved door; left, a handsome marble fireplace, with a mirror over it. Candlesticks with crystal pendants at each end of the mantelpiece, and in the middle a bronze statuette, some eighteen inches high, representing the manyarmed Goddess. A wood fire laid, but unlighted. Near the fireplace, two quite modern saddle-bag armchairs, out of keeping with the stiffness of the remaining furniture. A small table near the door, right, with modern English and French books on it. A handsome gramophone in the corner, right. On the walls, left and right, some very bad paintings of fine-looking Orientals in gorgeous attire. Electric lights. Traherne discovered at back, centre, looking out over the landscape, fie does not go out upon the loggia (which can be entered both right and left without passing through the room) because two turbanned servants are there, under the direction of an old and 28 dignified Major-domo, arranging a luxurious dinner table, with four covers. Traherne stands motionless for a moment. Then enters Crespin by the door, right, ushered in by a servant, who salaams and retires. Crespin Ah, there you are, Doctor. Traherne Turning. Hullo! How did you get on? Crespin All right. Had a capital tub. And you? Traherne Feeling more like a human being. And what about Mrs. Crespin? I hope she's all...

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In 1861 William Bircher joined the Union Army to help fight the Civil War. Too young to be a soldier, William was a drummer. He witnessed the many hardships of war long marches, severe cold, hunger, disease, and the great loss of lives. Through it all, 15 year old William recorded his experiences in his diary. Follow his story of challenges and triumphs.

Excerpt from Henry Irving, Actor and Manager: A Critical StudyChapter in his career. Epoch-making it will hardly be. His tour is not likely to produce much effect, for better or worse, on Mr. Irving's art. Travelling with his own company, his own scenery, his own appointments of every sort, he will in effect carry with him his own Lyceum from the orchestra backwards. Only the auditorium and its occupants will be changed; and if the visit were to be prolonged over years instead of months this change might be all-important. In the course of a winter tour, however, he will scarcely have the time, even if he had the will, to adapt his style to the changed conditions. I am not prepared to say that a prolonged separation from his Lyceum audiences - and his Lyceum critics might not have a beneficial effect upon Mr. Irving's art. It is useless to speculate one way or the other, for on separation long enough seriously to influence his style is likely to take place. Any Yankee notions he may bring.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

"A BRILLIANT THRILLER with a twisted plot and powerful ending... It is, quite simply, one of the best crime thrillers I have ever read. It would appeal to any fan of psychological terror, particularly those with a penchant for dark movies like Seven and The Silence of the Lambs. However, with graphic descriptions and concepts, it is definitely not for the faint of heart." - Official Online Book Club ReviewA priest hangs naked, crucified on the wall of an abandoned brewery - the first in a series of grisly murders plaguing the city of Courtsdale. A recurring nightmare of blood, intimacy and death haunts the dreams of investigative journalist Steven Carvelle.Someone stalks the city, and with inside access from Detective Kevin Miles, Steven investigates - searching on his own for the connection tying the terrifying events together.But as the search unfolds and the murders strike closer and closer to home, Steven comes to the terrifying realization that the killings bear an uncanny resemblance to his dreams.Is it connection? Or coincidence?What is the THE TROUBLE WITH BEING GOD?An utterly gripping ride for readers who love Stephen King, Chuck Pahlaniuk and Peter Straub. You will be questioning your own sanity once you discover this gritty, twisted and unputdownable crime thriller. What readers are saying about THE TROUBLE WITH BEING GOD:"... the kind of twisted reality I really enjoy reading.""[an] inner journey of our own occasional brutal thoughts and passions and how we choose to manage them.""You can't cover your eyes and say to the person next to you "I'm not looking, tell me when it's over" - you're screwed, once you read it, it's in there.""A strange but incredibly fascinating book.""You think you figure it out halfway through, but there's a twist on the very last page that really gets your brain going. This is one I'll be thinking about for a while, for sure.""Aicher’s skill at being able to plunge the knife deeper into his readers’ hearts when the death toll begins to climb, and people start showing their true colors shines a light on his creativeness and his overall understanding of the internal workings of man."This SPECIAL 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION includes additional, never-before seen scenes, the "lost" original ending, and an all-new afterword by the author!

High Quality FACSIMILE REPRODUCTION: Arher, William, 1856-1924 :The green goddess; a play in four ats 1921 [FACSIMILE] Originally published by New York Knopf in 1921. 160 pages. Book will be printed in black and white, with grayscale images. Book will be 6 inches wide by 9 inches tall and soft cover bound. Any foldouts will be scaled to page size. If the book is larger than 1000 pages, it will be printed and bound in two parts. Due to the age of the original titles, we cannot be held responsible for missing pages, faded, or cut off text.

Melodrama adapted from Henry James' The Turn of the Screw . Characters: 1 male, 3 female, 1 boy and 1 girl aged ten to thirteen.. A story of unspeakable horror, it begins when a young governess arrives at an English estate to oversee two precocious, orphaned youngsters. There's also a motherly cook. But these four aren't alone they're haunted by fears and phantoms and by ghastly shadows. The governess and cook are terrified, but the children are possessed by the spirits and welcome their visitations. The governess learns the spirits are those of the former caretaker and maid, both perverse, who corrupted the souls of the innocents. In a final scene, full of fear and terror, she learns that the two are now inseparable the evil and the innocents. . "In a lifetime of play going, I do not recall a single play which held me as spellbound." N.Y. Journal American

JOHN JASPER, (1812 - 1901) the negro preacher of Richmond, Virginia, stands alone among the preachers of the negro race in the South. He was a slave for fifty years and a preacher during 25 years of his slavery. Freedom came full-handed to Jasper, but it did not in any notable degree change him in his style, language, or manner of preaching. Of all the accolades that can be given to John Jasper, the greatest is that he walked with God and touched the lives of everyone who knew him.

"I was anxious on the first night of William Archer's play...because this [his] first play, and I could not help recalling the literary men...who have essayed the state, and who have not triumphed. Lo, before the end of the first act my anxiety was over... At the end of the second act I said, 'this is a money-getter.' At the end of the third act I said, 'Archer has put it over.' At the end of the fourth act I cheered with the rest." Quoted from the back of the book jacket.

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