Warning: Stay Away from Dead End Streets

Zach, Jessica, Pelt and Cole are students at the University of Pittsburgh spending five weeks of their summer break traveling through the Deep South to document little known monuments and unique relics of the past. On day six of their trek, they stopped at Bud’s Gator Museum near the Louisiana swamps. After Jessica pried her three male friends away from that icky museum, the group found an interesting sign reading “Dead End Road” fifty miles from the interstate. 

But this “Dead End Road” morphed into a dirt road riddled with weeds. From a nearby sign they learned they were on Gravedigger Road which led to a gravel lot in front of a church. Yards in back of the church the four travelers uncovered a cemetery with thirteen graves and the fourteenth plot not yet filled. Hungry, they ate their lunch under a shade tree until the gravedigger showed up. 

He was a large man burying a live pre-teen boy whose hands and feet were tied and duct tape stretched across his face. When the gravedigger heard a rapid succession of camera shots, he looked up and his face appeared like an angry skull. Thus, begins Rod Little’s On Gravedigger Road, a horror story that will definitely keep readers up at night. 

After the gravedigger notices he’s being watched, he chases the college students through a foggy swamp filled with snakes and gators. Their phones can’t get reception, and to make things impossible, the gravedigger sabotages their vehicle. The kids are stuck in this swamp hell and must survive a night that would feel feel more like a year. On Gravedigger Road is a 374-page suspense novel following the style of Stephen King, and like King’s books, it’s a page-turner that will keep you reading through all of the surprising twists and turns until the dramatic conclusion.

Rod Little writes a non-stop action plot with superb scene descriptions and excellent characterizations. On Gravedigger Road is a perfect read at any time, but especially a fun escape during the pandemic. Enjoy.

About the Author

Over the past twenty-five years, Rod Little has written horror and science fiction stories for magazines, novellas for the Wayward Pines series, and eight novels, including his own two series: Sons of Neptune and the Angry Galaxy series. In addition, his critically acclaimed horror novel, The Whisper Killer, hit the bestseller list this year. On Gravedigger Road is his newest novel.

Born in Illinois, Rod later moved to Pittsburgh, PA, and worked as a translator. In 1994 he opened a sci-fi and horror-related gaming store called Starbase One, which he kept open for 11 years of fantastic fun, until 2005, when he moved to the tropics to begin writing again.Rod travels often (when time permits), and has a second home in Asia.

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Michael Thal is the author of The Abduction of Joshua Bloom.