Sometimes things come to those that .....
Camp!
The weather's warm and the site in Hornsea is brilliant. A flock of geese are camping next to us!
Whilst admiring the facilities - pool table, showers, phone chargers - I perused the exchanging bookcase and lo and behold there's a paperback I've been looking for for ten years, one Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon.
Written by US actor and author Tryon, the book, as I've found out online, was a New York Times bestseller in 1973. A folk horror set in rural Connecticut, the plot, centered on a remote community following the old ways, is slightly reminiscent of the Wicker Man.
Stephen King didn't rate it, a contemporary of his novel Salem's Lot.
Nevertheless, Harvest Home went on to become a popular spooky US TV film as well back in the mid-Seventies. I've never seen it.
Tryon wrote The Other too, again, an American paperback I've never seen in the wild here in Blighty.
Have you read or seen Harvest Home readers?
What a lucky happenstance! Enjoy your holiday read, Woodsy.
ReplyDeleteThanks Arto! The geese are very entertaining! It's also much colder at night than we thought! Brrrr!
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