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Dark Harvest
Norman Partridge
Cemetery Dance, Nov 2006, $40.00, 172 pp.
ISBN 1587671976
It is Oct. 31 and the corn has been harvested but the stalks are still in the field, desiccated and shriveled. They won’t be plowed until November after the Run is completed. In the field is a vine and leaf scarecrow that has its roots in the land. On its head is a pumpkin. When the man cuts it down, he carves a face into October Boy and the thing comes to life.
Male teens between the ages of sixteen and nineteen have been locked away in their rooms for five days and all want to take down October Boy for the candy he hides in his body and the prize of a new house with no bills for a year for the winner’s family. The teen will be allowed across the Line able to leave the town behind while others are trapped. Here Pete McCormick learns who October Boy really is and those previous October Boys before him and is determined to stop the evil that holds the town in thrall.
DARK HARVEST is a terrific horror story that would make a great movie Wes Craven style. The prose the author uses creates the gothic atmosphere and the mood of the town and the horror that lives there. There are a lot of action and killing scenes but this is not a slasher horror tale because each scene has a purpose, one that readers begin to understand as the truth is slowly revealed. Norman Partridge latest work will have readers going to sleep with all the lights in the house blazing.
Norman Partridge
Cemetery Dance, Nov 2006, $40.00, 172 pp.
ISBN 1587671976
It is Oct. 31 and the corn has been harvested but the stalks are still in the field, desiccated and shriveled. They won’t be plowed until November after the Run is completed. In the field is a vine and leaf scarecrow that has its roots in the land. On its head is a pumpkin. When the man cuts it down, he carves a face into October Boy and the thing comes to life.
Male teens between the ages of sixteen and nineteen have been locked away in their rooms for five days and all want to take down October Boy for the candy he hides in his body and the prize of a new house with no bills for a year for the winner’s family. The teen will be allowed across the Line able to leave the town behind while others are trapped. Here Pete McCormick learns who October Boy really is and those previous October Boys before him and is determined to stop the evil that holds the town in thrall.
DARK HARVEST is a terrific horror story that would make a great movie Wes Craven style. The prose the author uses creates the gothic atmosphere and the mood of the town and the horror that lives there. There are a lot of action and killing scenes but this is not a slasher horror tale because each scene has a purpose, one that readers begin to understand as the truth is slowly revealed. Norman Partridge latest work will have readers going to sleep with all the lights in the house blazing.
