The Third Parent

No one knows where he came from. No one knows what he wants. No one dares ask about his strange physical abnormalities. For a quiet suburban neighborhood, things are about to change. And it starts with a knock at the door.

Follow his rules. Don't call the police. Listen to his lessons. That's what Jack and his family were told. Held captive in their own house, they must face a growing storm of mental and physical trauma as they try to just stay alive.

But even if Jack can survive the horror of his childhood, will his tormentor ever leave him alone? And who is he really?

Who is Tommy Taffy?

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OUTSTANDING!!!

Elias Witherow is one of my favorite authors so I was PUMPED to see this added to Audible. I was not disappointed!!! Immaculate narration, captivating story line and over all amazing. I heard they are going to make it into a movie so that's exciting. Highly recommend this and his other books on Audible, as they are also great. All I need now is more!!!!!

Disturbing violence

Elias remains the king from r/nosleep. I’m pretty jaded when it comes to extreme horror stuff, but there are some scenes in this that will stick with me for a long time. Only reason I docked one star is for some logical plot problems, but honestly they were barely a distraction from the nightmares I come to Witherow for.

Outstanding!

I couldn't stop listing to it! It is very harsh and violent and creepy. Solidly into horror, but I loved it. Can't wait for Elias' next book!

awesome

I love this writer's imagination how he takes us with so many different places unthought of before

Loved it

been hoping this story would become an audiobook on here since the Creepcast podcast covered the original creepypasta, and I love the way Elias' novel renditions of his original creepypasta stories reference them which I cannot exactly explain as to avoid spoilers but to those who read this review definitely check out the original stories before listening to the books, might be slight spoilers as to concepts in the stories and maybe bits overall but it's fun to catch the references in the full novels.

the only thing I hated was the whisper yelling but I understand that there's probably a good reason the narrator couldn't just yell the yelling bits out.