A review by billymac1962
Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon

3.0

More fine writing from Thomas Tryon. Had I read Harvest Home in 1973 I'm sure the impact would have been greater than in 2003 as this story line has since been rehashed and copied countless times: A man decides to move his wife and daughter out of the big city and begin a simpler life in an isolated rural farming community. The community is almost Amish in their keeping with the "old ways". This is a horror novel so of course things are not as wonderful as they seem and sinister turns are inevitable. Today, this story is predictable but it's really unfair to diss a 30 year-old novel for this. Regardless of its predictability it is still worth picking up. It gave me the creeps