![]() In an introduction that explores monsters both fictional and real, Partridge recalls what it was like to live in a community menaced by a serial killer and examines how the Zodiac's reign of terror shaped him as a writer. ![]() "The Man Who Killed Halloween" is an extensive essay about growing up during the late sixties in the town where the Zodiac Killer began his murderous spree. In "Three Doors," a scarred war hero hunts his past with the help of a magic prosthetic hand, while "Satan's Army" is a real Partridge rarity previously available only in a long sold-out lettered edition from another press.īut there's more to this holiday celebration besides fiction. ![]() "Johnny Halloween" features a sheriff battling both a walking ghost and his own haunted conscience. In "The Jack o' Lantern," a brand new Dark Harvest novelette, the October Boy races against a remorseless döppelganger bent on carving a deadly path through the town's annual ritual of death and rebirth. Now Partridge revisits Halloween with a collection featuring a half-dozen stories celebrating frights both past and present. A Bram Stoker Award winner and World Fantasy nominee, Partridge's rapid-fire tale of a small town trapped by its own shadows welcomed a wholly original creation, the October Boy, earning the author comparisons to Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, and Shirley Jackson. ![]() ![]() Synopsis: Norman Partridge's Halloween novel, Dark Harvest, was chosen as one of Publishers Weekly's 100 Best Books of 2006. ![]()
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