A family flees the crime-ridden city-and finds something worse-in "a brilliantly imagined horror story" by the New York Times-bestselling author (The Boston Globe). 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 ...
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A family flees the crime-ridden city-and finds something worse-in "a brilliantly imagined horror story" by the New York Times-bestselling author (The Boston Globe). 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.
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I purchased the book on recommendation from friends. I was disappointed, especially given how much I've heard about it over the decades, how it's a classic. It started off cheesy, and then it remained cheesy, with periods of boredom and cringe. I can see where some horror tropes comes from it, and I reckon when it was new it was considered innovative. I guess. -- I didn't pay much for it at all, and I'm still kinda perturbed about it. It should've told me something when no public library in the county or two neighboring counties had it. "Harvest Home" isn't bad. It's just not good. It's fair, at best.
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Nov 12, 2009
If you like Stephen King. . .
If you enjoyed Salem's Lot, you will like this book. I re-read it over a summer evening and before going to bed, I pulled the blinds down against things that go "bump" in the night.
