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Horror Month 2023: #10

Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon

October 30, 2023 by Jake Leave a Comment

This was the kind of book I was hoping to discover when giving Horror Month a shot. It’s not the best book I’ve read this year, nor even this month. But it’s the kind of thing I was hoping to read: quality psychological horror that is beyond the mainstream. Getting this rec from Max Read’s substack was a gift. It was a delight to pour through Tryon’s rich language as he slowly but surely developed the characters, parceling out horror bit-by-bit until the big reveals, […]

Maiden, Mother, and Crone of the Corn

Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon

February 10, 2023 by meagmms 7 Comments

CW: Incest, rape, sexual assault, violence against women, suicide I found Thomas Tryon’s Harvest Home after digging around Reddit for books similar to Ari Aster’s artful horror movie Midsommar and bought a used copy online. The jacket artwork is cool. I’ll venture back for rereads, absolutely. It’s a folk horror novel written during the production of The Wicker Man in 1972, although neither the author nor director were aware of one another at the time. Neopaganism was having a moment in the 1960s. Times and […]

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The Other by Thomas Tryon

June 17, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

I think I thought I knew what this book was all about from its reputation and what cultural products reference it at times. It’s an evil twin novel, and I thought the Simpsons episode with Hugo is at work here. It’s not quite. Anyway, this is a novel form 1970, a thriller, written by a sometimes actor who would go on to have some various publishing successes. This was apparently a giant bestseller, but has probably faded from consciousness in a lot of ways. It’s […]

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