The Harvest (Scary Supernatural Horror with Monsters): The Bell Witch Series, Book 1 Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Sara Clancy (Author), Scare Street (Author, Publisher), John Pirhalla (Narrator)

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Amid the sweet sounds of a music box, their darkest fears will haunt them.... In Black River, Tennessee, everyone knows the legend of the Bell Witch...and the alleged curse that hangs like a dark shroud over the town. To some, it is just a local tall tale. But to others, it is terrifyingly real.

For centuries, four families have been forced into the ritualistic tradition of sacrifice and terror. Every year, a member of each family stumbles upon an antique music box they need to lock before the time is up. And a horrible fate awaits them once the boxes open.

Trapped in the witch’s sadistic game, the families’ young offspring are forced to journey into the dark and twisted woods of Black River in search for the keys to their salvation. But as they search for a way to end the curse, a haunting melody echoes through the trees. And each lost soul must wonder....

Will they survive the night? Or will the Bell Witch’s bloody harvest claim more victims?

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7 hours and 16 minutes
Author

Sara Clancy, see all
Narrator

John Pirhalla
Audible release date

November 1, 2019
Language

English
Publisher

Scare Street
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B07ZQTYNQN
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Unabridged
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Listening Length	7 hours and 16 minutes
Author	Sara Clancy, Scare Street
Narrator	John Pirhalla
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com Release Date	November 01, 2019
Publisher	Scare Street
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B07ZQTYNQN
Best Sellers Rank	#150,374 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #694 in Occult Horror Fiction #2,027 in Supernatural Thrillers (Audible Books & Originals) #5,138 in Occult Fiction

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Amber

Haunting

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 22, 2022

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Couldn’t put it down. Loved this version of the Bell Witch and absolutely can’t wait to read the next book. I adore Besheba and hope she kicks butt again.

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karlye

Page turning

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 11, 2022

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I couldn't put this book down. I read it on 2 days(I have children or it would have been less)! The ending was very unexpected!

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A gruesomely terrifying piece of horror

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 21, 2022

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The premise is simple: four old families are cursed forever by a dead witch, forced to take part in the witch’s harvest, every year.

The twist? The witch picks the four contestants herself – after haunting them for weeks on end – and if they don’t complete the harvest within seven days, they die.

I didn’t know what I was getting myself into when I started reading this (which is how I often throw myself over books), but this impressed me greatly. Right from the start it was terrifying and horrible, and Clancy has an incredible way of painting an image and setting a scene.

There’s something raw and real about horror that keeps pulling me back when I deep down also want to look away – be it in books, movies or video games. It awakens that instinct in me that makes you want to peek through your fingers, that makes you want to investigate the creepy sound from the loft, or call out for whoever’s there when you know you’re home alone – and Sara Clancy does it really well.

This book is part terrifying horror story and part YA adventure novel, and I’d say I liked the horror part the most. It’s not that I didn’t like when the four harvest contestants had to overcome their personal horrors and work together to survive – there’s a battle royale feeling to all of it that I enjoyed a lot – it’s just that I’m much more intrigued by the horror.

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JLen

Great Story!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 4, 2022

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I loved the idea of this book! It starts out with the reader having no idea what is going on, but it’s quickly explained. The characters are interesting, the storyline is good, and the ending is not a cliffhanger but does lead perfectly into book 2! I wish the town and the inhabitants had been explained a bit better, but overall it was good!

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Catriona Lovett

Beware of the Music Box

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 24, 2022

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The Harvest is well written and scary, with a core group of characters to like and more than a few family members to detest. The book has an interesting concept and the execution gave me quite a few jump-scares. I've always enjoyed the Bell Witch legend, which Sarah Clancy has embellished for this popular series. She's given readers some terrifying and imaginative supernatural threats for each of the hapless "contestants" to overcome.

I have one quibble: I wish that I knew more about the witch beyond the bare facts that she stole children, the families rose up to kill her, and then she cursed them for all time. Sticking around to exact lethal vengeance on these families for generations after her demise makes it apparent that she's very powerful.

But, she must have been human once. How did she become so powerful? What's her motivation? Witch = evil isn't satisfying. I suspect there's plenty in her history with these families that could round her out more.

And where did the music boxes come from? I think more is explained in the following books in the series.

Thank you to Sarah Clancy and Scare Street for making the first book of the series available for free. Without being required to do so, I'm happy to give my honest endorsement of The Harvest. It's a good read!

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Guy

A great horror read with realistic characters

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 7, 2022

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This is the first book of the Bell Witch series. And what a gripper. I will need to read at least one more book by this author, Sara Clancy, to decide if she is one of my new favorite authors but if I were to base that on this book alone she has moved to the top of my list. One of the things I appreciated is that the author didn't pollute the book with sexual intimacy.

With well-defined characters built in unhurried methods (no forced conversations to create backstories), a good story, and thrilling situations this book flows well. I'm looking forward to reading the rest of the series.

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the savage amazon

A really fun change on the cursed family lines tale

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 20, 2022

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A new twist, yay!. The players could have used a bit more fleshing out. Especially the central four, though they did gather some as the book went on. I think the biggest hero was Buck, always partial to dogs. Bashebas uncle sounds like a super creepazoid. Ozzie's folks are just rich idiots, Cadwyn seems to be fairly alone. While Minas feel like particle board cutouts. The big excitement of a funeral home explosion, to the anti-climatic ending in a parking lot...still on my way for book in the series. I did give this four stars, which may be a better indicator than this written review. You may find it even be bytter than I did.
I'm not tooting my own horn, but I left over 150 book reviews of Kindle books in 2021. A four star is real good read. Grab your copy and remember to watch out for children under trees......

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Rhianna Wolsleger

Family curse

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 26, 2022

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The plot is good but a little predictable. The writing feels like it might be this author’s first book, but I know there are sequels and would love to see how the writing style matures through the series.

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The Paragon

A mixture of Hunger Games and Saw

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 25, 2021

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For generations, the Bell Witch of Tennessee has demanded retribution against the four families who brought about her destruction. After a property deal done wrong, an accusation of witchcraft and a hanging, Katrina Hamilton's revenge can only be satisfied with a Hunger Games/Saw movies battle to the death with members of the families Bell, Crane, Sewall and Winthrop, who've been carefully selected by the witch herself.

And this year's selections prove pretty promising. Among them is a psychiatric nurse from a maximum security facility, a clueless teenager who faints at the sight of blood, a cynic with a deadly secret in her backpack, and a spunky little lady who lives in her car with a massive Rottweiler. But with the keys required to break the curse hidden in the very objects that terrify the young people the most, and the town turning a blind eye to all the mayhem and bloodletting of 200 years (due to tourist dollars and bumper crops), will vengeful Katrina get to harvest the souls she craves, or will the young strangers bond together and face their fears?

Really well-drawn characters, creepy settings and nicely constructed dialogue make for one hell of a story. I would have liked a bit more of an emotional arc from cynic, Mina. She begins the story firmly believing in logic and all things scientific and, naturally a 200 year old witch-ghost doesn't gel too well with that. But then, after everything the team goes through, and Mina's shock as she feels and sees things she can't explain, led me to feel that she should have some sort of epiphany. Of course, she doesn't have to become a convert, but I think I would have liked her to address her feelings later in the tale.

Amanda GRIFFITHS-JONES

A Good Fast-Paced Chiller

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 5, 2023

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This is the first book I’ve read by this author & I really enjoyed the ride. It’s a fantasy/horror that takes its roots from urban legend, with plenty of imaginative twists & scary scenarios. I won’t spoil the plot but it was fast-paced & well-written. Will definitely be reading the next book in the series.

Mr G

Don’t buy it. Don’t even get it for free.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 30, 2020

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Oh my, this is a badly written book. I’ll give anything a try and rarely ditch a book, especially one I got for free via BookBub but this is weak. Unrelatable characters, poor dialogue, cliched plot... I’ve read GCSE English stories that were better written. Sorry. Feels like it was written by algorithm.

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Philip Chadwick

Based on a "true" story

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 23, 2022

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Quite a bit to like about this one - reasonably well written and plotted, some genuinely scary moments and based on historical incidents
A lot to like and good enough to put up with the usual flaws, in short a series to pursue

Dave Holwill

Fun, creepy and with characters you'll love

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 23, 2021

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I really liked this ensemble cast horror. Black River is a wonderful, evocative setting and the witch's woods are full of proper scares.
The four families are well-developed and I'm looking forward to chewing my way through the rest of this series.

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