October

1990 · Bantam

Professor Kevin Michaels arrives in the upstate New York town of New Polk to take a faculty post and revive critical appreciation for the town's famous recluse, author Eileen Connel, and her neglected masterpiece Season of Witches. Connel's failing mind guards an unspeakable trauma rooted in a Halloween night forty years earlier. As October settles over the valley, an alien entity wakes and slips into human skin, and Michaels must read the warnings hidden in Connel's writing before the town is consumed.

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