Johnny Halloween: Tales of the Dark Season

Johnny Halloween: Tales of the Dark Season

Norman Partridge's Halloween novel, Dark Harvest, was chosen as one of Publishers Weekly's 100 Best Books of 2006. 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.

Now Partridge revisits Halloween with a collection featuring a half-dozen stories celebrating frights both past and present. In â€œThe Jack o' Lantern,â€ a brand new Dark Harvest novelette, the October Boy races against a remorseless dÃ¶ppelganger bent on carving a deadly path through the town's annual ritual of death and rebirth. â€œJohnny Halloweenâ€ features a sheriff battling both a walking ghost and his own haunted conscience. In â€œThree Doors,â€ a scarred war hero hunts his past with the help of a magic prosthetic hand, while â€œSatan's Armyâ€ is a real Partridge rarity previously available only in a long sold-out lettered edition from another press.

But there's more to this holiday celebration besides fiction. â€œThe Man Who Killed Halloweenâ€ is an extensive essay about growing up during the late sixties in the town where the Zodiac Killer began his murderous spree. 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.

Halloween night awaits. Join a master storyteller as he explores the layers of darkness that separate all-too-human evil from the supernatural. Let Norman Partridge lead you on seven journeys through the most dangerous night of the year, where no one is safeâ€¦and everyone is suspect.
Country USA
Manufacturer Cemetery Dance Publications
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2011-10-16
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Cemetery Dance Publications
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2011-10-16
Format	Kindle eBook

Johnny Halloween: Tales of the Dark Season

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