Cemetery Stories

An Undertaker's Diary is based on the diaries that the author kept during his 7 years as an undertaker.

The stories are told 'through his eyes' and in a raw and down to earth way that will absorb the reader in each and every varied encounter with death.

This is not for the 'fainted hearted' and contains gruesome and often disturbing accounts of tragedy and death from plane crashes to house fires, murders to hit and runs. If you have ever wanted to be a 'fly on the wall' at some of the most disturbing scenes imaginable… this is the book for you!

Working with the Dead opens doors to modern embalming and caring for the dead in a way that is easily understood by those wishing to follow the art.

Make yourself comfortable, lock the door, and prepare to be surprised.

Les Franklin joined the funeral trade in the 1970s, two months before his 18^th birthday, and worked there for over 14 years and in the last few years he kept a diary. This book is the diary.

Some of the stories may shock and disgust you when you read how bodies and mourners were treated. But the stories are all true and hopefully these appalling things no longer exist in the funeral trade. Hopefully.

Warning: This book should be avoided by gentle souls and fragile minds.

From shoot-outs at funerals to dead men screaming and runaway corpses, undertakers have plenty of unusual stories to tell--and a special way of telling them.

In this macabre and moving compilation, funeral directors across the country share their most embarrassing, jaw-dropping, irreverent, and deeply poignant stories about life at death's door. Discover what scares them and what moves them to tears. Learn about rookie mistakes and why death sometimes calls for duct tape.

Enjoy tales of the dearly departed spending eternity naked from the waist down and getting bottled and corked--in a wine bottle. And then meet their families--the weepers, the punchers, the stolidly dignified, and the ones who deliver their dead mother in a pickup truck.

If there's one thing undertakers know, it's that death drives people crazy. These are the best "bodies of work" from America's darkest profession.

"Sick, funny, and brilliant! I love this book." --Jonathan Maberry, multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author of They Bite! and Rot & Ruin

"As unpredictable and lively as a bunch of drunks at a New Orleans funeral." --Joe R. Lansdale