High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Harvest Home is the name of a 1973 novel by Thomas Tryon, which he wrote in the wake of his 1971 critically acclaimed The Other. Harvest Home was a New York Times bestseller. The book became an NBC mini-series called The Dark Secret of Harvest Home starring Bette Davis (as Mary Fortune) and David Ackroyd (as Ned) in 1978. The mini-series was generally faithful to the plot of the book.