Both take place in a remote location with a tight-knit community of people who are suspicious of outsiders and who cling to the old ways. Interestingly enough, it was published the same year that The Wicker Man was released, and although there’s no chance that one influenced the other, there are some similarities between the two works. Harvest Home is one of the best examples of folk horror in literature that I’ve read so far. The narrator of Harvest Home articulates the same impulse, while showing why that kind of thinking is a trap. Earlier I wrote a post about my daydreams of running away from everything, to hide out in the countryside and strip my life down to the essentials. Formerly a lover of the pavements, now I would be a lover of the earth.įor a while, I’ve been itching to write about Harvest Home, the 1973 novel by Thomas Tryon.
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