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!
DeleteThomas Tryon is actually a terrific writer, and The Other and Harvest Home are horror classics. The movies ain't bad either! I'd trade you ten Stephen Kings for one Thomas Tryon any day! SFZ
ReplyDeleteHa ha. Stephen King wasn't in the NYT bestsellers list in 1973. Maybe that had something to do with his lukewarm opinion of Tryon SF!
DeleteReally enjoying Harvest Home. I don't know why Stephen King disliked it.
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