Culla Holme, the father in Cormac McCarthy’s novel Outer Dark, impregnates his sister Rinthy. After she gives birth, he leaves the infant in the woods to die, lying to Rinthy that the baby died of natural causes and was buried. Then Culla skips town. Bad dad. Bad bro. Bad guy. For the story of another bad dad, read The Great Stork Derby, based on an actual contest in which a husband pressures his wife to have babies for cash and, fifty years later, learns the true meaning of fatherhood. Read more about the book in NOVELS.
