Richard Hodge

Father From A Putrid Tree

Three generations. Sixty-four years of corruption, murder, and unspeakable sins. Some legacies should never be inherited!

Richard F. Hodge - A Storyteller Forged by Grit and Truth

Meet the Mind Behind
“Father From A Putrid Tree”

Born under Kennedy’s sky and raised in the Bay Area, I grew up fixing TVs and questioning systems. After years in the Army, serving as an Army helicopter weapons technician and electronics engineer with a lifetime of observing how power works—on battlefields, in churches, and behind closed doors—I wrote a story that felt all too real.

Father from a Putrid Tree didn’t come from imagination alone. It came from a deep knowing: evil often hides in plain sight.

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A Family’s Sins Don’t Fade—They Fester

What Happens When Evil Becomes Inheritance?

A father’s cruelty poisons his children. A town’s silence lets it spread. Would you break the cycle—or become a part of it?

Generational Trauma

Broken people hurt people. The cycle only stops when someone bleeds enough.

Corruption of Power

Money, violence, authority becomes a weapon when no one dares to question it.

The Weight of Silence

Every ignored scream feeds the rot. Complicity is its own crime.

False Morality

A preacher’s collar hides bloodstains. God doesn’t bless the guilty.

About the Book

A Legacy of Silence, Sin, and Shattered Souls

Father From A Putrid Tree isn’t your average family drama. It’s a haunting journey through decades of secrets, twisted loyalties, and darkness inherited like blood.

From a single brutal choice in 1915 to the chilling ripple effects generations later, this story peels back the mask of a “good” family to reveal something rotten beneath.

What happens behind closed doors can echo for decades—and not everyone makes it out clean.

Dare to look deeper?

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What Our Readers Say

What readers are saying about a story so dark, it’ll linger in your bones long after the last page

I couldn’t sleep for days. The way generational evil unfolds is masterful—like watching a car crash in slow motion. Absolutely haunting. A modern Southern Gothic masterpiece.

Rarely does fiction capture historical rot with such vividness. The McConnells’ descent into moral decay mirrors America’s own shadows. Disturbing, necessary, and impossible to put down.

This book crawled under my skin and stayed there. The characters felt terrifyingly real. That ending? I screamed. If you love dark family epics, READ THIS!!!

I had to sleep with the lights on—no joke. It’s that unsettling. Still, I couldn’t stop reading. Bravo… but maybe warn readers to brace themselves?!

A brutal, unflinching look at inherited trauma. The prose is razor-sharp, the tension unbearable. Not for the faint of heart—but if you dare, it’ll wreck you.