{"product_id":"harvest-home-9781504056199","title":"Harvest Home","description":"\u003cb\u003eA family flees the crime-ridden city--and finds something worse--in \"a brilliantly imagined horror story\" by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling author (\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Credited as the inspiration for Stephen King's \u003ci\u003eChildren of the Corn\u003c\/i\u003e, Thomas Tryon's chilling novel was ahead of its time when first published, and continues to provoke abject terror in readers. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThomas Tryon (1926-1991), actor turned author, made his bestselling debut with \u003ci\u003eThe Other\u003c\/i\u003e (1971), which spent nearly six months on the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller list and allowed him to quit acting for good; a film adaptation, with a screenplay by Tryon and directed by Robert Mulligan, appeared in 1972. Tryon wrote two more novels set in the fictional Pequot Landing of \u003ci\u003eThe Other\u003c\/i\u003e--\u003ci\u003eHarvest Home\u003c\/i\u003e (1973) and \u003ci\u003eLady \u003c\/i\u003e(1974). \u003ci\u003eCrowned Heads\u003c\/i\u003e (1976) detailed the lives of four fictional film stars and \u003ci\u003eAll That Glitters\u003c\/i\u003e (1986) explored the dark side of the golden age of Hollywood. \u003ci\u003eNight Magic\u003c\/i\u003e (published posthumously in 1995) was a modern-day retelling of \u003ci\u003eThe Sorcerer's Apprentice\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Open Road Integrated Media LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50621045473554,"sku":"9781504056199","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_438b78ef-ccf2-4650-a6c5-843406c0e4e0.jpg?v=1732579591","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/harvest-home-9781504056199","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}