![]() This year, Pete McCormick is determined to “jump the line” and bust out of the dead-end town, breaking free from his drunk, deadbeat dad. The Halloween of 1963 begins the same pattern – the boys take to the streets with weapons, and the October Boy rises from the fields. The October Boy rises from the dead and shucked cornfields, butcher knife in hand, and runs through the streets to the church at the center of town, where every teen male awaits with the same goal: to kill the October Boy, and win a way out of the town’s endless cycle of fear and desperation. Every year, the small, corn-farming midwestern town performs a ritual of violence and death. Why the hell WOULDN’T I read this book!?Īll Hallows Eve, Anytown USA. Celebrated as one of the best new voices in contemporary American horror. Blurbed by the likes of Peter Straub and Stephen King. Why did I read this book: Winner of the Stoker Award. How did I get this book: Review Copy from the publisher 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.” 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. ![]() He’s willing to risk everything, including his life, to be a winner for once. Pete McCormick knows that killing the October Boy is his one chance to escape a dead-end future in this one-horse town. Both the hunter and the hunted, the October Boy is the prize in an annual rite of life and death. 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. Whatever the name, everybody in this small Midwestern town knows who he is. They call him the October Boy, or Ol’ Hacksaw Face, or Sawtooth Jack. Publication Date: October 2006 (original) / September 2010 (reprint) ![]() Publisher: Cemetery Dance Publications (original) / Tor (reprint)
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