3.5
Harvest Home
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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
, Thomas Tryon's chilling novel was ahead of its time when first published, and continues to provoke abject terror in readers.
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3.5
Limited character growthMemorableMorally ambiguousMultilayeredStrong villainLoose endsSlow start, strong finishSuspensefulWell-structuredBeautifulEerieEnchantedIdyllicMysteriousOtherworldlyPicturesqueRusticSetting fits the storyUnique locationBeautifully-writtenDescriptiveEasy to readFlowery/lushTakes getting used toAbleismAbuseAnimal abuseBigotryChild abuseChild lossDeathDomestic violenceExplicit sexual contentFat phobiaGriefMisogynyMurderReligious intoleranceSelf-harmSexual assaultSubstance abuseViolence
“Harvest Home came highly recommended so I was excited to read it. The folk setting, small community, old ways, was all written really well. The ending was kind of meh, but it wasn't bad. Couldn't quite give it 4☆, but it wasn't a slog by any means, and I'm glad I read it.”
“Could have done without the vivid r*pe scene - but all in all it felt very slow and that it only really starting getting into the 'lore' in the second half of the book. Enjoyed some of the character arches and a focus on matriarchal cults for a change.”About Thomas Tryon
Thomas Tryon (1926–1991), actor turned author, made his bestselling debut with
(1971), which spent nearly six months on the
bestseller list and allowed him to quit acting for good; a film adaptation, with a screenplay by Tryon and directed by Robert Mulligan, appeared in 1972. Tryon wrote two more novels set in the fictional Pequot Landing of
—
(1973) and
(1974).
(1976) detailed the lives of four fictional film stars and
(1986) explored the dark side of the golden age of Hollywood.
(published posthumously in 1995) was a modern-day retelling of
.
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