Jake Kovac is a character that only appears in the 1997 young adult novel The Scream Factory.
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Jake Kovac is a young man who attended Haddonfield High School in 1997 as a senior. He is described as "The Rebel Without a Clue" and the "Lone Stranger" by Matt Hudson. Jake is into motorcycle and usually dresses in faded black jeans and a leather jacket. He is an artist and a musician. His peers considered him weird, though he was basically shy and more complex. He had honey blond hair and would sit in front of Lori Parker in physical science.
A few days before Halloween, his bike broke down in the rain and he was picked up by Lori, Matt and Sally Wilson, to be given a ride home. Instead, they headed to the Myers house. Jake and Matt sneaked up to the house and saw a dead dog inside before Matt fell down from the startle. Jake and Matt, two different types or people, seemed to bond during the incident.
Jake had a secret crush on Lori, a crush that was secretly reciprocated. He offered to have his band play at their Halloween party. He was offered $400.00 to play at Marsha Miller's party instead, but declined due to loyalty to Lori, who by then had become his girlfriend. Jake and Lori were riding on his motorcycle when Michael Myers cut a tree down and tried to push it on them in the road but failed to hit them.
Later, Jake had Lori, Matt, and Sally over to his house, which found him and Lori in a compromising position when his alarms started to go off stating the perimeter had been breached. The police advised everyone to leave the property, which they did.
Jake then attended the Halloween Party at City Hall, where he and his band played a concert. Before the concert, he and Lori had a falling out in which his band members informed Lori of Brenda and hinted that Jake and Brenda were together. However, Jake played a song to Lori during the concert, which made her forget their fight. However, Brenda attacked Lori after the song and was thrown out by the police.
However, Michael Myers invaded the party and set the building on fire. Jake was trapped under some decorations, but was helped out by Matt and was able to survive the night with his life intact.