In the plains of Oklahoma, there's a man who can stop tornadoes with his bare hands—or so the locals whisper.

After a catastrophic storm flattens an entire area, only one house remains intact: that of a reclusive old man named Jubal Webb. Rumor has it he's a witch, a storm forecaster, or simply crazy. Driven by curiosity and skepticism, young journalist Clara Lowe travels into the heart of nowhere to uncover the truth.

But what she finds is stranger—and more human—than she expected.

Jubal doesn't stop storms.

He thrives on fear.

Not to destroy it, but to carry it—to keep it hidden—so others don't have to.

As Clara delves into the mystery of the man and the city's past, she uncovers a forgotten tragedy, a tree of buried memories that grows with every secret revealed, and a storm far more dangerous than anything in the sky: the one brewing inside all of us.

In a poetic, emotionally charged story that blends magical realism with rural gothic, *The Man Who Eats Fear* offers a meditation on trauma, healing, and the strange ways we survive the things that try to destroy us.