num_pages: 169
description: Halloween, 1963. They call him the October Boy, or Ol' Hacksaw Face, or Sawtooth Jack. Whatever the name, everybody in this small Midwestern town knows who he is. 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. Both the hunter and the hunted, the October Boy is the prize in an annual rite of life and death.Pete McCormick knows that killing the October Boy is his one chance to escape a dead-end future in this one-horse town. He's willing to risk everything, including his life, to be a winner for once. 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...
language: English
title: Dark Harvest
titlecomplete: Dark Harvest
characters: Dan Shepard, Kelly Haines, Jim Shepard, Pete McCormick, Jerry Ricks, Jeff McCormick
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Supernatural, Thriller, Halloween, Novella, Young Adult, Fantasy, Horror, Paranormal
ratings_count: 8385
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Bram Stoker Award
category: Best Long Fiction, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: World Fantasy Award
category: Best Novella
publisher: Tor Books