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Harvest Home

A Novel

Thomas Tryon
3.9
(87)
Pages
415
Year
2013
Language
English

About

In a country village, a family of New Yorkers encounters a chilling ancient rite 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.

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"Tryon plays to the senses. . . . His stories ripple with plots and subplots."
The New York Times on Crowned Heads
"Harvest Home is a brilliantly imagined horror story."
The Washington Post
"Even more creepy-crawly than The Other!"
The Washington Post

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