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by:
Thomas Tryon (author)
It was almost as if time had not touched the village of Cornwall Coombe. The quiet, peaceful place was straight out of a bygone era, with well-cared-for Colonial houses, a white-steepled church fronting a broad Common. Ned and Beth Constantine chanced upon the hamlet and immediately fell in love...
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It was almost as if time had not touched the village of Cornwall Coombe. The quiet, peaceful place was straight out of a bygone era, with well-cared-for Colonial houses, a white-steepled church fronting a broad Common. Ned and Beth Constantine chanced upon the hamlet and immediately fell in love with it. This was exactly the haven they dream of. Or so they thought.
For Ned and his family, Cornwall Coombe was to become a place of ultimate horror.
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Format: paperback
Publish date: 1975-02-01
Publisher: Coronet Books
Pages no: 415
Edition language: English
Some books have such compelling action that I get completely sucked in, reading to find out what’s next, what’s going to happen on that next page. This is not that kind of book. Instead, it is a slow burning, wonderfully atmospheric story that sucked me into the mysterious events and curious charact...
I've read reviews of this book that give it a hard time for being derivative of stories like The Wicker Man or "Children of the Corn," but this story actually came before either of those other ones. Like The Other, this is a fine example of atmospheric horror, where the events and the situations co...