Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon
After watching his asthmatic daughter suffer in the foul city air, Theodore Constantine decides to get back to the land. When he and his wife search New England for the perfect nineteenth-century home, they find no township more charming, no countryside more idyllic than the farming village of Cornwall Coombe. Here they begin a new life: simple, pure, close to nature--and ultimately more terrifying than Manhattan's darkest alley.
When the Constantines win the friendship of the town matriarch, the mysterious Widow Fortune, they are invited to join the ancient festival of Harvest Home, a ceremony whose quaintness disguises dark intentions. In this bucolic hamlet, where bootleggers work by moonlight and all of the villagers seem to share the same last name, the past is more present than outsiders can fathom--and something far more sinister than the annual harvest is about to rise out of the earth.
Credited as the inspiration for Stephen King's Children of the Corn, Thomas Tryon's chilling novel was ahead of its time when first published, and continues to provoke abject terror in readers.
“Even more creepy-crawly than The Other!” —The Washington Post
“Harvest Home is a brilliantly imagined horror story.” —The Boston Globe
“Superbly haunting.” —Chicago Tribune
“Scary in the same way Rosemary’s Baby keeps the tension growing. A genuine eye-widener, Harvest Home pulls out some new stops in horror story telling, and might keep you from small, out-of-the-way towns for a long time to come.” —The Sacramento Bee
Actor-turned-author Thomas Tryon (1926-1991) made his bestselling debut with The Other (1971), which spent nearly six months on the New York Times bestseller list and allowed him to retire from playing for good; a film adaptation, directed by Robert Mulligan and written by Tryon, was released in 1972. Harvest Home (1973) and Lady (1974) are two more novels by Tryon set in the fictional Pequot Landing of The Other. Crowned Heads (1976) followed the lives of four fictional movie stars, while All That Glitters (1986) looked at the dark side of Hollywood's golden period. A modern-day version of The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Night Magic (released posthumously in 1995) was a modern-day retelling of The Sorcerer's Apprentice.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781504056199 |
| ISBN 10 | 1504056191 |
| Title | Harvest Home |
| Author | Thomas Tryon |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Open Road Media |
| Year published | 2018-11-20 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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