After Midnight Tales

The Preserver's Gruesome Inheritance


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A narrator inheriting a remote Kentucky property and the secretive workshop of his recently deceased father, a taxidermist. He soon discovers that his father’s work involved creating grotesque, human-shaped figures designed to appease a local, ancient entity known as “the parent,” which punishes the town by causing children to disappear if the figures are not provided. After witnessing the consequences of failing the ritual, the narrator reluctantly assumes his role as the town’s new "preserver," supported—though uneasily—by the local community. Through his father’s journals, he learns the full horror: the figures must be “rooted in truth,” requiring the use of actual children as part of the ritual. The story concludes with the town delivering a young boy to the narrator, cementing his inheritance of this grim, sacrificial duty.

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