What The Father Left

Some legacies shouldn't be inherited.Cole Janssen hadn't spoken to his father in twenty-two years. Now the old man is dead, and the only thing he left behind is a farmhouse rotting in the Ozark hills.Cole should sell it. Instead, he stays.In the barn, inside a locked freezer, he finds forty-seven mason jars — each holding something that was once part of a woman, each labeled in his father's hand with a name and a date stretching back decades.He should call the police.But the house has started speaking to him. A voice beneath the floor, calling him son.And the longer Cole stays, the more he understands that his father's appetite was never his father's alone. It runs in the blood. It has a name. And it is waking up inside him.What the Father Left is a literary horror novel about inheritance, hunger, and the terrible question of whether a man who knows exactly what he is can choose, one night at a time, not to become it.For readers of Aron Beauregard — and for anyone who came up on the unflinching work of Clive Barker, Jack Ketchum, and Edward Lee.Contains graphic violence and disturbing content. Reader discretion advised. Read more