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. 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. It was written shortly after, and probably inspired by, Ritual (which was later made into The Wicker Man). It was written by Thomas Tryon, an actor turned writer, in the early 70s. 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. 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.
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.
(But it was new to me, and probably to a lot of people.) I am trying to be fairly spoiler free, though the book is also 5 decades old.
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