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by Gordon R. Ross (Author)
Welcome Reader, to the haunting tales of Tidy Vale Haven of Rest's deceased and those nearly-so, told to you by a mysterious old black grave digger, Alvin Grubbins. You'll find he's on speaking terms with nearly all of them, but most after they were planted. Tidy Vale may seem like an old grave yard to some, getting its first two bodies shortly after the War between the States, known to most up north as the "Civil War." But Tidy Vale is old enough to hold some 3,000 souls, though there are quite a few who haven't been counted in the total and some who are unwelcome...at least by many of the living...and the dead. In this part of Southeastern Oklahoma's unique setting you'll find more than just the snakes, weeds and bugs, the heat and the humidity. Alvin will tell you about the ignorance, lust, greed, revenge, murder and prejudice that makes this little hell-hole in "Little Dixie" so "special." Besides the Yankee army mule and its two dead human companions who started it all, you'll meet the old wrecker driver with lots to tell about what happens after the mourners leave, the spoiled little rich girl who always got whatever she wanted...even after being dead for over 50 years, the bigot who learned the hard way what bigotry really was, the used car dealer who thought he'd make a killing at home, the other grave digger who dug under the cemetery...opening caskets and corpses, the frail old man cutting up a relative in a dog food factory, the thief dying to make his fortune, the oversexed woman who got much less...and more than she bargained for, the murderer's ghost who tried to make amends at a public fish fry, the widow trying to stay alive while others worked at ending her life, the funeral home worker who got caught stacking bodies in Tidy Vale, and the new mortician having trouble disposing of a dead midget ventriloquist. Now, if variety in your horror reading is your cup of tea or shot of bourbon, you just found it in "Tales from Tidy Vale!"
Author Biography
Gordon R. Ross is a retired award-winning journalist and advertising executive whose career assignments have taken him from east to west, north to south in America. He now free-lances as a published writer, author and illustrator. His work has appeared in both fiction and non-fiction magazines, journals, newspapers, books and on audio recordings and broadcast media. His recent pulp fiction "Three Times Dead" series ("Dead Eyes," "Dead Silence," and "Dead Certain"), involving a harassed and crippled former policeman-turned private investigator in 1930's Santa Barbara, is scheduled for a second publication in Amazon print-on-demand and Kindle book download formats. Also ready for publication is "Death Tag", a close-to-reality fiction thriller involving illegal aliens, meth houses, drug cartels and crooked law officers in a created county located in Oregon's Cascade mountain range. A sample from "Death Tag" is included at the end of "Tales from Tidy Vale." Gordon and his wife, JoAnn, live in Southern Oregon. They have two sons, five grandchildren, two great grandchildren, scattered from Pennsylvania to Washington, Arizona and California. He is a graduate of the University of Oregon's school of journalism.
