Ben Woodard: 13 books

Tom craves danger—to forget. He persuades his cousin Will to walk across High Bridge, a single track railroad bridge with no railings. Danger follows them onto the track, and Tom has to has to make a deadly choice.

The myth continues with a lonely eagle and a soulful boy. Reunited, but unable to help one another. Only the surly grizzly can help the boy become a hunter. But will he? A middle grade short story. A sequel to The Boy Who Flew With Eagles.

An ancient forest, a dark night, a strange woman—and whispers. What is going on in this eerie Irish forest? Ten-year-old Declan has to find out. His brother is missing and only he can solve the mystery. But why him? He doesn’t even like his always-yelling brother who his sister says was eaten...

Fourteen-year-old Tom Wallace plans to escape the small town in the 1923 Kentucky countryside—the town that won’t let him forget his past—when a horrific explosion changes his mind. He teams with his cousin Will and young FBI agent Rick Sweeney to solve a perplexing mystery. Someone is trying...

An eyeless body. A menacing stranger. And a tangled mystery. It’s the summer of 1923 and two cousins hunting for hidden gold stumble on an decayed body. Fourteen-year-old Tom Wallace is convinced the death was murder and drags his older cousin into a harrowing struggle against a shadowy group. Not...

Elizabeth loves donuts—maybe too much. When her Dad says, “No donuts today,” she pouts, smells the donuts next door, and sneaks into the shop. She had to have one donut, but when she has MORE than one, strange and hilarious things happen. A humorous fantasy adventure for children ages 4-8.

H.P. Lovecraft, one of the twentieth century’s most important writers in the genre of horror fiction, famously referred to Edgar Allan Poe as both his “model” and his “God of Fiction.” While scholars and readers of Poe’s and Lovecraft’s work have long recognized the connection between...

Despite humanity s gradual ascent from clustered pools of it, slime is more often than not relegated to a mere residue—the trail of a verminous life form, the trace of decomposition, or an entertaining synthetic material—thereby leaving its generative and mutative associations with life neatly removed...

Famine. A giant eagle. And a boy who would be prey. A storyteller weaves an adventure of a Native American boy challenged to save a family of eagles or become their meal. With famine looming for animals and humans, the boy, Naa'ki, labors to feed the eagles and learn their wisdom. As a reward for...

Two boys. Guns. Laughter, and a haunting memory. Not Tom and Huck, but Tom and Will in this Twain-like short story of a hunt in the Kentucky countryside. Tom's inexperience leads to hilarious antics until they finally bag their animal. Tom finds that hunting is fun, but the killing is not....

A quiet town in Kentucky explodes from a racial incident and fourteen-year-old Tom Wallace is in the thick of it. His past haunts him and now he’s witness to a horrific event leaving him devastated and afraid. He must escape his town and its memories. But leaving has consequences, too. He will have...

An examination of the new technological mediations between the human sensorium and the planetary media network and of the aesthetic as an enabler of new modes of knowledge. This series of interventions on the ramifications of Speculative Realism for aesthetics ranges from contemporary art's...

It’s Adventure Time with Finn and you! Embark on the most mathematical journey imaginable by diving into tales all about your favorite human in the Land of Ooo. From playing retro board games to facing down foes, Adventure Time: Finn collects all the stories that make the Eisner Award-winning series...