The Gourdfather - Pumpkin Praline

"He wasn’t carved. He was cursed."

In the deepest shadows of the Harvest Hollow, there grew a single pumpkin patch that was never meant to bear fruit. The land had been scorched during the Autumn Trials-an ancient reckoning meant to seal away the souls of the most wicked men ever to walk the fallow earth. But evil has roots. And one took hold.

From that cursed soil rose a twisted entity. Not born… but grown.

He was once a man-Dominic Gourdonni, a corrupt orchard baron who sold souls for syrup and buried rivals beneath trees sweetened by sin. Betrayed by his own blood during a botched pie cartel deal, his body was hacked apart and planted like compost. Yet on the thirteenth blood moon, he clawed his way back-with bark for bones, pulp for guts, and a jack-o’-lantern for a head.

He became known only as...

The Gourdfather.