Rebecca Howard: 16 books

Following in the tradition of the Southern Women series, Arkansas Women highlights prominent Arkansas women, exploring women’s experiences across time and space from the state’s earliest frontier years to the late twentieth century. In doing so, this collection of fifteen biographical essays productively...

500 pages of spooky haunted house stories from 12 authors! What happens when the place in which you’re meant to feel the safest turns against you? Where do you go when the world inside your four walls is scarier than the world outside? Get ready to find out! From the authors...

Things just got a little scary in central Kentucky...are you ready for some ghosts? White Hall State Historic Site, Westover Terrace, the Pigg House, Boone Tavern, Pearl Buchanan Theatre...what do these have in common? You'll find some of the creepiest ghost stories and urban legends...

Do children, these innocent souls whose lives were cut drastically short, haunt in a different way? Can YOU resist the spirit of a child? Are you ready to take a journey into the afterlife? Everyone loves a good ghost story! But what happens when the ghost is just a child? In the following...

Taryn Magill can see the past through her camera and she’s never met an old house she didn’t like. But what happened before she fought for her life at the Devil’s House? What is the mysterious presence that haunts her Aunt Sarah’s farmhouse in New Hampshire? Was she the first to see and hear...

Much of American popular culture depicts the 1930s South either as home to a population that was intellectually, morally, and physically stunted, or as a romantic, sentimentalized haven untouched by the nation’s financial troubles. Though these images stand as polar opposites, each casts the South...

Fifteen bite-sized stories, offering a sampler platter of fantasy, science fiction, and paranormal horror. Within these pages, you’ll find flower fairies, alien brothels, were-bears, and sentient houses. Step inside a museum where all the displays are haunted, follow a siren into the underworld...

Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire...

An all-new anthology of eighteen classic myth retellings featuring an all-star lineup of award-winning and critically acclaimed writers. Madeleine L’Engle once said, “When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe.” The Mythic Dream gathers together eighteen stories that reclaim...

If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal...

A Young People's History of the United States brings to US history the viewpoints of workers, slaves, immigrants, women, Native Americans, and others whose stories, and their impact, are rarely included in books for young people. A Young People's History of the United States is also a companion volume...

Originally intending to produce the first comprehensive scholarly reference guide to the antecedents, practices, and theory of oral history, the editors have gone even further, creating a highly readable and useful tool for scholars, students, and the general public. Covering the vast scope of this...

Windwood Farm has a terrible secret–one that's been buried for nearly 100 years. Taryn Magill aims to uncover it…or die trying. As a mixed-media artist and urban explorer with a love for abandoned houses and the past, 30-year-old Taryn has never met an old house she didn't like. In fact,...

Jewish art has always been with us, but so has a broader canvas of Jewish imaginings: in thought, in emotion, in text, and in ritual practice. Imagining the Jewish God was there in the beginning, as it were, engraved and embedded in the ways Jews lived and responded to their God.This book attempts...