Harvest Home - by Thomas Tryon (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Ned Constantine and his family abandon hectic New York for a tranquil New England village where they unknowingly become part of the secret Harvest Home ritual.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>A family flees the crime-ridden city--and finds something worse--in "a brilliantly imagined horror story" by the <i>New York Times</i>-bestselling author (<i>The Boston Globe</i>).</b> <p/> 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. <p/> 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. <p/> Credited as the inspiration for Stephen King's <i>Children of the Corn</i>, Thomas Tryon's chilling novel was ahead of its time when first published, and continues to provoke abject terror in readers. <br><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Tryon plays to the senses. . . . His stories ripple with plots and subplots." --<i>The New York Times</i> on <i>Crowned Heads</i><br>"Even more creepy-crawly than <i>The Other</i>!" --<i>The Washington Post</i><br>"<i>Harvest Home</i> is a brilliantly imagined horror story." --<i>The Boston Globe</i><br>"Superbly haunting." --<i>Chicago Tribune</i><br>"Scary in the same way <i>Rosemary's Baby</i> keeps the tension growing. A genuine eye-widener, <i>Harvest Home</i> 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." --<i>The Sacramento Bee</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Thomas Tryon (1926-1991), actor turned author, made his bestselling debut with <i>The Other</i> (1971), which spent nearly six months on the <i>New York Times</i> 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 <i>The Other</i>--<i>Harvest Home</i> (1973) and <i>Lady </i>(1974). <i>Crowned Heads</i> (1976) detailed the lives of four fictional film stars and <i>All That Glitters</i> (1986) explored the dark side of the golden age of Hollywood. <i>Night Magic</i> (published posthumously in 1995) was a modern-day retelling of <i>The Sorcerer's Apprentice</i>.
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