![]() ![]() 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. ![]() 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". "This is contemporary American writing at its finest." ( Publishers Weekly, starred review) ![]()
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