Dark Harvest
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3.9 • 33 Ratings
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
"This is contemporary American writing at its finest." — Publishers Weekly, starred review
Winner of the Stoker Award and named one of the 100 Best Novels of 2006 by Publishers Weekly, Dark Harvest 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 be a winner for once. But before the night is over, Pete will look into the saw-toothed face of horror--and discover the terrifying true secret of the October Boy...
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Halloween in 1963 is the setting for this spine-tingling horror tale. Every year in a small Midwestern town, teenage boys are forced to participate in a deadly tradition known as the Run, in which they must race to the church by midnight and risk being killed by the October Boy—a pumpkin-headed monster armed with a butcher knife. The winner’s prize? The chance to leave their dead-end hometown. Norman Partridge makes us pull for his hero, lovable loser Pete McCormick, who prepares for his turn at the Run and a chance to escape his drunken father. But when Pete discovers the truth about the Run, he’s thrown for a horrifying loop—and so are we! Partridge offers a fresh take on the traditional monster story, and narrator Vikas Adam’s deep, raspy voice heightens the tension and scares. Dark Harvest will have you glued to your headphones till the end.
