![]() Each of these stories focus on long-standing farming communities that maintain traditions dating back to the communities' early days, and deal with outsiders, crops and, of course, sacrifice. The three that most readily come to mind are the excellent Robin Hardy film The Wicker Man (1973), Stephen King's short story " Children of the Corn" (1977), and their predecessor Harvest Home, Thomas Tryon's follow-up to his successful first novel The Other. ![]() The early 1970s experienced a mini-trend in pagan-related horror, pagan communities subsisting in modern society, featuring harvest rituals, heaps of corn and various forms of sacrifice. Read about other Friday's Forgotten Books at Patti Abbott's blog. ![]() ![]() _, Harvest Home, New York: Fawcett Crest, July 1974 (my edition) Tryon, Thomas, Harvest Home, New York: Alfred A. ![]()
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