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List Price: $12.95Amazon.com's Price: $10.36 You Save: $2.59 (20%)Prices subject to change.
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780765319111
ISBN: 076531911X
Label: Tor Books
Manufacturer: Tor Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 176
Publication Date: September 04, 2007
Publisher: Tor Books
Release Date: September 04, 2007
Sales Rank: 109848
Studio: Tor Books
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
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 . . .
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."
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This is one book that if you buy it for the cover, you won't be disappointed when you flip through page after page and find you can't put it down. I personally love all Autumn/October/Halloween type stories. I am collector of small-press horror and fantasy books and I found Dark Harvest as a limited edition from Cemetery Dance press - it's a nice little hardcover, signed and numbered, and smells just like a great book should.
Anyway, it's more of a novella I think, and that's the only ... Read More
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This is delightful! I've read it twice now and look forward to reading it again. Sure, you'll figure things out before the characters do because you've got clues that they don't have. Yes, there are chase scenes. That's the point! The writing itself is so artful, with one beautiful sentence after another, that the plot is almost irrelevant. Sit down and enjoy the beauty of the printed word; let the tale spin out in front of you with all its implications and subtlety. You'll be glad you did.
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This was a very interesting read, not that it was bad, actually far from it. Based in a small Midwestern town, there is the legend of the October Boy. Every Halloween this thing comes out of the corn field and makes its way to town. Mean while every boy between the ages of 16 to 18 go on a "Run" to kill this thing. The boy that kills this pumpkin head first is declared the winner and thinks they are getting a ticket out of a dead end town, while their family is given every luxury that anyone could want. ... Read More
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I'd never heard of this book or of Norman Partridge (no relation to Alan) before coming across a display in the bookstore. I thought that the cover was just brilliant and I knew I had to get it right away.
The story is about a redneck-ish town in middle America which has a horrific and surreal annual tradition. Every Halloween a Jack O'Lantern-type monster will rise from the cornfields and head for town. If he makes it to the church then he's won but with his jacket stuffed with candy and starving ... Read More
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I don't seem to review a novel unless I can give it five stars. I'm happy to show up with those stars for this one.
This novel was harder than some for me to get absorbed in, but I got over that quickly enough. The viewpoint, especially early on, doesn't reveal much of the characters. Usually I need that character connection, but the story and atmosphere provide the initial pull for this novel. The initial characters are, in fact, left behind. A risky move, but I kept going, fascinated with the story ... Read More
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