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. 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.

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. Harvest Home, on the other hand, is immaculately crafted, genuinely spooky, by fits and starts both horrifying and terrifying, and the prose really sings. Here they begin a new life: simple, pure, close to nature-and ultimately more terrifying than Manhattan's darkest alley. Thomas Tryon (19261991), actor turned author, made his bestselling debut with The Other (1971), which spent nearly six months on the New York Times 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. 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. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Harvest Home by Tryon, Thomas at the best online prices at eBay Free shipping for many. In this spellbinding horror novel, a family trades their crime-ridden city for country life-and encounters an evil more sinister than they could have imagined After watching his asthmatic daughter suffer in the foul city air, Theodore Constantine decides to get back to the land. In this spellbinding horror novel, a family trades their crime-ridden city for country life-and encounters an evil more sinister than they could have imagined After watching his asthmatic daughter suffer in the foul city air, Theodore Constantine de.

Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon