Jere Cunningham – The Legacy

Jere Cunningham – The Legacy (Sphere, 1980: originally Fawcett, 1977)

Blurb:

SOMEWHERE IN THE DARKNESS IT IS WATCHING AND WAITING – FOR YOU
Chester Rawlings is the first victim – he blows his brains out to escape a living death.
Then old Sam is discovered lying beside his master’s grave, dead of an unnatural heart attack- two corpse-like fingers clutched in his hand.
Now a child watches as her parents struggle in the grip of an unspeakable horror: only the child knows the awful truth – it is already too late to save them from THE LEGACY