Like the title says I LOVED Song of Kali and I just finished Harvest Home which had that similar kinda outsider encountering cult community feel. I would love recommendations for similar type books. Thank you guys in advance!! 🤓
Hi everyone. Tonight's episode is named for the mini-series based on the novel *Harvest Home."
Here is the plot:
>Ned (Nick in the film) Constantine, his wife Beth, and their daughter Kate relocate from New York City to an isolated Connecticut village, Cornwall Coombe, where the villagers adhere to "the old ways", eschewing modern agricultural methods and having limited contact with the outside world. The villagers celebrate a number of festivals that revolve around the cultivation of corn. The most important festival is "Harvest Home", which takes place once every seven years.
>Ned befriends Robert Dodd, a former college professor who is now blind and housebound; like Ned, Robert was once an outsider who moved to Cornwall Coombe at the behest of his wife Maggie, who was born in the village. Ned also meets Justin Hooke, who serves as the current ceremonial "Harvest Lord"; Justin's wife Sophie, his chosen "Corn Maiden" in the approaching "Corn Play"; and Worthy Pettinger, a young man whose dream of going to agricultural college are frustrated by his parents, who hold to the old ways. The most important person in the village is the widow Mary Fortune, known as "Widow," the village herbalist and midwife. When Kate suffers a severe asthma attack, the Widow Fortune performs a tracheotomy to save her life, and later prescribes home remedies which cure Kate entirely. Beth and Kate grow to adore the Widow, but Ned is suspicious of her herbal medicines and finds her influence in the town troubling.
>Meanwhile, Worthy is chosen as the next "Harvest Lord" who will replace Justin at the end of his seven years of service. Worthy does not wish to become the Harvest Lord, confusing Ned, who understood the title to be an honor. At church, Worthy shouts out a curse upon the corn before fleeing. The Widow announces that Worthy is henceforth "bane" and will be shunned from the village if he ever returns. Ned, however, secretly provides Worthy with money to escape the village, and Worthy promises to write to him.
>Ned begins to understand that the villagers, led by their women, practice pagan fertility rites to insure their harvests. He become suspicious of the upcoming Harvest Home, but the most anyone will tell him is that it is "what no man may see nor woman tell." Meanwhile, unknown to Ned, Worthy's letter to Ned is intercepted and used to send a posse to retrieve him. Ned is horrified to see Worthy's body burned in a massive bonfire on Kindling Night.
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I am trying to be fairly spoiler free, though the book is also 5 decades old. (But it was new to me, and probably to a lot of people.)
Some time ago, I asked for recommendations for texts that contained vivid and interesting descriptions of ritual sacrifice, and a kind user suggested Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon. I don't think the book is exactly obscure, since I had heard of it and I'm far from well-read in horror literature yet, but it's also certainly not a book that is on everyone's mind at the moment.
Harvest Home is a novel, and I had asked for short works, since I had other longer works on my plate, but the premise of Harvest Home was fascinating to me and a few pages in I was hooked, so I kept going.
It was written by Thomas Tryon, an actor turned writer, in the early 70s. It was written shortly after, and probably inspired by, Ritual (which was later made into The Wicker Man). Both books were written by actors-turned-writers (Tryon kind of famously struggled to be taken seriously as a writer at first because he was so fucking good looking) but it's unfair to compare the two. Ritual is well paced with occasionally clever dialogue and some good action scenes but its main appeal seems to have been that it was clearly written to be filmed and someone had a good eye and realized "folk horror" might make a few bucks on the big screen. Harvest Home, on the other hand, is immaculately crafted, genuinely spooky, by fits and starts both horrifying and terrifying, and the prose really sings. It checks a lot of boxes: weird, eerie, macabre, grotesque, occasionally sexy, and some pretty well developed characters too.
The plot, to be glib, is kind of a macabre and hellish version of Green Acres. A man, a woman, and their daughter in NYC, who have plenty of money, decide to buy a house out in the country and go, as the narrator (somewhat cloyingly) says over and over, "Back to the land." They move to a village that seems to have remained largely unchanged for centuries. The people do interact with the outside world (and there is a convenient prestigious private school within driving distance for the daughter of the family) but they prefer "the old ways" to the extent that no one even uses modern farm equipment to harvest the village's corn. Corn is a Way of Life, a religious obsession, for the folks (reminiscent of a seminal short story written a few years later by a genius writer of horror who notoriously reads everything) and as the year unfolds the narrat
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I'd like at least a week in-between drying and the party so my house can air out.
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Hello everyone! Today saw Beyond the Ice beating Wizard's Crown, 47 to 32. Um, there are no witty lyrical references I can make, because Beyond the Ice is an instrumental. So, du nu nu nu nu nu nu ... nu nu nu nu nu nu, Wizard's Crown?
Today we have Harvest of Sorrow vs. Carry the Blessed Home. Harvest of Sorrow will be in the Survivor Championship rounds by the way... I initially thought this one might be close, but I'm having second thoughts. Pick a favorite!
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WANT: Wishlist and/or possibly something I don't already have. I'm also interested in multiplayer (online, local and couch co-op).
HAVE: Games List (Barter.vg)
I HAVE MULTIPLE KEYS FOR MANY OF THESE!
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10 Second Ninja X
11-11 Memories Retold
12 is beter than 6
12 is Better Than 6
1954 Alcatraz
A New Beginning - Final Cut
A Story about my uncle
A Wild Catgirl Appears!
A Year of Rain
Action Henk
Active Neurons Puzzle game
Aegis Defenders
AER Memories of Old
Agatha Christie - The ABC Murders
Age of Wonders III
Ageless
AGON - The Mysterious Codex (Trilogy)
AI War Collection
AI War: Fleet Command
Alchemist
Alekhine's Gun
Alien Shooter 2: Reloaded
Almost There: The Platformer
aMAZE Classic
American Fugitive
Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition
Ancestors Legacy
Anna's Quest
Anomaly: Warzone Earth
Ascension to the Throne
Asterix & Obelix XXL 2
Atomik: RunGunJumpGun
Attack of the Earthlings
ATV Drift & Tricks
Autonauts
Awesomenauts
Ballpoint Universe - Infinite
BATTALION 1944
Battle vs Chess
BATTLETECH
BATTLETECH Flashpoint DLC
BATTLETECH Shadow Hawk Pack DLC
Beat Cop
Beep
Between Me and The Night
Bionic Dues
Bionic Dues
bit Dungeon
bit Dungeon II
bit Dungeon III
Black Moon Chronicles
Blackguards - Standard Edition
Blackguards 2
Blazing Chrome
Bleed 2
Blood: Fresh Supply
Bomber Crew
Bonbon
Borderlands 2 Game of the Year
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel
Boreal Blade
Bridge Constructor Medieval
Bridge Constructor Playground
Bridge Constructor Stunts
Brigador: Up-Armored Edition
Brushwood Buddies
Brutal Legend
Brutal Legend
Bulletstorm - Full Clip Edition Duke Nukem Bundle
Canyon Capers
Capitalism Plus
Carmageddon: Max Damage
Castaway Paradise - Life sim with Animals
Cat Quest
Chaos on Deponia
Chaos Reborn
Chariot
Charlies Adventure
Chicken Shoot Gold
Children of Morta
Chime Sharp
Chris Sawyer's Locomotion
Cities in Motion 2
Close to the Sun
Clustertruck
Clutch
Codex of Victory
Coffee Crisis
Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller
Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller
Concrete Jungle
Control
Convoy
Cook Serve Delicious
Cook Serve Delicious! 2!!
Crazy Machines 3
Crown Champion: Legends of the Arena
CTU: Counter Terrorism Unit
Cubicity
Cultures - Nort
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