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Dark Harvest

✍️ Norman Partridge
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🏛 Tor Books 📅 2007 📖 178 pages 🌐 English 📔 Paperback ISBN: 9780765319111

📝 Description: Dark Harvest

The Stoker Award-winning tale of Horror!

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Norman Partridge delivers a lean, relentless punch of seasonal dread in Dark Harvest, transporting readers to an unnamed Midwestern hamlet where every Halloween brings a brutal rite of passage. The premise centers on a terrifying annual tradition: teenage boys must hunt a knife-wielding, pumpkin-headed entity known as the October Boy before midnight to escape their trapped town, unaware of the grim mechanics fueling the cycle. The atmosphere is thick with autumn chill, dying cornstalks, and claustrophobic small-town paranoia, aiming for visceral suspense rather than cheap jump scares. This fast-paced, blood-soaked folk horror tale suits fans of dark seasonal folklore and readers who love gritty, high-stakes survival stories.
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Norman Partridge delivers a lean, relentless punch of seasonal dread in Dark Harvest, transporting readers to an unnamed Midwestern hamlet where every Halloween brings a brutal rite of passage. The premise centers on a terrifying annual tradition: teenage boys must hunt a knife-wielding, pumpkin-headed entity known as the October Boy before midnight to escape their trapped town, unaware of the grim mechanics fueling the cycle. The atmosphere is thick with autumn chill, dying cornstalks, and claustrophobic small-town paranoia, aiming for visceral suspense rather than cheap jump scares. This fast-paced, blood-soaked folk horror tale suits fans of dark seasonal folklore and readers who love gritty, high-stakes survival stories.

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