Harvest Home A Novel
Harvest Home A Novel by Thomas Tryon, published by Knopf in November 2018, is a reprint edition comprising 401 pages. This work presents a narrative where Theodore Constantine, seeking a healthier environment for his asthmatic daughter, relocates his family from a crime-ridden city to the idyllic farming village of Cornwall Coombe in New England. Initially drawn by the charm of the town and its countryside, the Constantines soon discover that their new life is fraught with dangers that surpass the perils of urban living.
Readers will find that the story unfolds as the Constantines become entwined with the local community, particularly through their connection with the enigmatic Widow Fortune. The invitation to participate in the ancient Harvest Home festival reveals a facade of quaintness that conceals darker, more sinister elements. As the narrative progresses, themes of horror and suspense emerge, highlighting the village’s hidden secrets and the unsettling reality that lies beneath its picturesque surface. This edition invites readers to explore the chilling atmosphere and gothic elements that define Tryon’s work.
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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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