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Dark Harvest by Norman Partridge is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. At the start of this mesmerizing new fantasy from Partridge (_Mr. Fox and Other Feral Tales_), it's Halloween night in 1963 in Anytown, U.S.A., and the local teenage boys are ramping up for the annual hunt for the October Boy, a pumpkin-headed being cultivated by the town fathers to run the gauntlet each All Hallows' Eve. The boy who brings him down before he makes it to the local church wins a highly coveted ticket out of town and, as most believe, liberation from the stultifying ennui of small-town life that has crushed all ambition and dreams out of the adults. Pete McCormack is among the most determined boys on the hunt, but this evening he will learn horrifying truths about his town's tradition and the terrible price he must pay for his manhood. Partridge has always had a knack for sifting deeper significance from period pop culture, but here he brilliantly distills a convincing male identity myth from teen rebel drive-in flicks, garish comic book horrors, hard-boiled crime pulps and other bits of lowbrow Americana. Whether read as potent dark fantasy or a modern coming-of-age parable, this is contemporary American writing at its finest. (

Who reads Dark Harvest?

Author

Norman Partridge

Publisher

Tor Books

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780765358714

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Thriller

Rating

3.67 / 5 (38 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13