Dark Harvest

Paperback, 176 pages

English language

Published Sept. 4, 2007 by Tor Books.

ISBN:
978-0-7653-1911-1
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OCLC Number:
124539095

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3 stars (9 reviews)

Winner of the Bram Stoker Award and named one of the 100 Best Novels of 2006 by Publishers Weekly, Dark Harvest by Norman Patridge is a powerhouse thrill-ride with all the resonance of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery."

Halloween, 1963. They call him the October Boy, or Ol' Hacksaw Face, or Sawtooth Jack. Whatever the name, everybody in this small Midwestern town knows who he is. How he rises from the cornfields every Halloween, a butcher knife in his hand, and makes his way toward town, where gangs of teenage boys eagerly await their chance to confront the legendary nightmare. Both the hunter and the hunted, the October Boy is the prize in an annual rite of life and death.

Pete McCormick knows that killing the October Boy is his one chance to escape a dead-end future in this one-horse town. He's willing to risk everything, including his life, to …

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Subjects

  • Horror & ghost stories
  • Horror Fiction
  • Fiction
  • Fiction - Horror
  • Horror
  • Horror - General
  • Suspense
  • Thrillers
  • Fiction / Horror
  • Coming of age
  • Teenagers