Satan's Army (1 star)- This made absolutely no sense to me at all. I hated this story the more I think of it and am actually going to lower the initial star rating I gave it. In the end you find out the reasoning behind some things we are told as readers and pretty much it can be summed up that woman are sluts and it's not a man's fault when he responds in an angry manner.
They are essentially punishing the woman for daring to be in charge of her own body. The author had the whole a woman goes off to get an abortion and is left barren trope which I hope dies off soon. Johnny Halloween (2 stars)- A man looks back and comes face to face with the man he blames for his brother's death. There were only two stories that I actually thought were more than okay, the rest I didn't really care for at all. I felt a few times that things were cut off. I skipped over the introduction and got to the first story (7 percent) and after that most of the stories I felt were way too short. I read this for the "Pumpkin" square for the Halloween 2016 Bingo. I was done with this within an hour, I just didn't have time to get on my computer to post reviews until now. 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.Well the cover is cool. “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. Cemetery Dance has announced the upcoming October release of Norman Partridge’s Johnny Halloween.ĭescription: Norman Partridge’s Halloween novel, Dark Harvest, was chosen as one of Publishers Weekly’s 100 Best Books of 2006.
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