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Harvest Home
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
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Summary
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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- Aaron Cotton
- 08-08-19
About a third too long and slow at that
About a third too long and slow at that. Picks up at the end though
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- megan davey
- 29-05-24
Solid American folk horror
Tryon manages to put you firmly in the shoes of the protagonist. The main character - a city dweller thrust into rural strangeness - is both easily sympathetic and detestable across chapters.
For those already well read in folk horror there is little new here, but what is missing in originality is made up for by prose done so well you can almost smell the country setting and hear the creaking floorboards within.
The narration is good, if a little cheesy and is at the very least entertaining.
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- Mrs Maureen Cate
- 02-12-18
Pastoral horror...
I first read and enjoyed Tom Tryon’s ‘Harvest Home’ about 50 year’s ago. At the time I suspect I was initially curious to find out what this very good looking film actor had written! Later, one of my favourite actresses, Bette Davis. played the widow in an adaptation for television.
This Audible production has delighted me. The story hasn’t dated, the narration is convincing and the characters are absorbing - especially the widow - still Bette Davis in my mind’s eye!!
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- Jackie M-W
- 15-11-18
Annoying narration, dull tale
The story had the potential to be interesting, but it devolved into repetitiveness and the mysteries, once unveiled, were anticlimactic and/or nonsensical.
The narrator’s attempt to mimic the old woman and small child were painful to say the least.
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- kindlemama
- 20-07-16
Chilling tale of tradition and conspiracy
Enjoyed this well written and skilfully crafted tale. Will definitely explore more of this authors work
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- Mr. M. B. Georgeson
- 28-04-23
Got to the end.
Very nearly great but lacking something. Became irritating in its prosaic tone but I can imagine when it was written it would have been rather original. Works as an allegory of hippy ideals.
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