He lived in the Ozarks for over 20 years, last making his home in Branson. He has also won a number of awards from the Missouri Writers Guild. He won a Spur Award from Western Writers of America for The Medicine Horn. He has won numerous awards for his poetry and prose and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in Letters for his novel, Grass Kingdom. His poetry and short stories were widely published when he began writing commercial fiction.

At other times, he uses simple touches that make his people real.’ Jory Sherman began his literary career as a poet in San Francisco’s famed North Beach in the late 1950s, during the heyday of the Beat Generation. When called for, he can paint with a broad brush. John, author of Reflections In A Rearview Mirror and other books, writes that ‘Jory Sherman doesn t just tell a story but brings it to life through his characters, places, situations and obvious knowledge of history. His first book about this country was called MY HEART IS IN THE OZARKS, and is still in print, as it has been for nearly three decades. He began writing about those green hills and deep shadowy hollows almost from the time he set foot in that magical country that covers parts of Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Illinois and Kentucky.

Jory Sherman has been writing about the Ozarks for nearly 30 years. But before Chill and Laura could exorcise the devil, more blood would flow, more violence would be committed, and Chill himself would be accused of horrendous crimes, In a shattering finale, Chill and Laura come to grips with an invisible force that operates in a human body a force that only the ancient elements of fire and flood will finally destroy. Someone among the Hinton family and friends was consorting with Satan there was evidence of a bloody black mass in an abandoned mine and it meant a painful trance for Laura to try to invoke the dark forces of the netherworld. Chill was not himself psychic, but his special lady, beautiful Laura Littlefawn was, And so she came with him to Big Bear Lake.

The evil was past destroying the Hintons’ livestock it bad begun destroying their lives. And at the very moment that Sam was calling psychic investigator ‘Chill’ Chillders for help, the broken body of his young son was discovered. It all started with the wholesale slaughter of prize cattle at Sam Hinton’s ranch at Big Bear Lake.

Vegas Vampire by Jory Sherman