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We All Fall Before the Harvest
by C.M. Forest
Genre: Horror
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In the guts of a nameless city, career criminal Owen fights for his sanity and his life. After stealing a morbid piece of artwork at the behest of his boss, Owen discovers the original owners of the grotesque painting are part of a twisted cult known as The Family—and they’ll stop at nothing to get it back.
The longer Owen possesses the painting, the more it warps his mind and alters the very world around him. Between those that want him dead, his own dark past, and his crumbling grip on reality, the walls are closing in. Unstable but determined, Owen is the only thing standing between our world and the coming Harvest.
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What inspired you to write this book?
I fricking love cosmic horror. It’s a subgenre that I haven’t touched much upon in the past, but always wanted to. When I had some free time on the schedule for a new project, I knew it was going to be cosmic horror. That’s about all I knew at first, but it was enough.
What can we expect from you in the future?
In the very near-future (as in June!), I have novel being released through Eerie River Publishing. The book, called Infested, is a parasitic horror story, and is very near and dear to me. I’d been working on it for a long (seriously, it has been so long) time, and it’s nice to see it finally coming out.
Beyond that, I have another novella in the works, and a second novel that needs a final coat of paint before I can parade it out into the world.
Can you tell us a little bit about the characters in (Name of book)?
Owen? Well, Owen is a bad man. That’s not up for debate. He’s done things, awful things, that haunt him daily. He’s the kind of guy that, when you see him walking toward you, you cross the street. I’m a big fan of crime noir stories, and wanted to channel that sort of protagonist into We All Fall Before the Harvest. Somebody living in a state of constant grey.
What did you enjoy most about writing this book?
Not to sound like a psycho, but I liked the cruelty of it. The story is mean and that’s what I wanted. There’s a dangerous, nasty masculinity to the prose that adds a visceral sheen to the entire thing. I reveled in it.
If you had to do it all over again, would you change anything in your latest book?
I am a creature of regret in most aspects of my life. Heck, I regret eating the blueberry Pop Tarts this morning instead of the strawberry! But, in the case of this book, I really don’t have any. It was a perfect storm of creativity for me that resulted in something I’m proud of.
If your book was made into a film, who would you like to play the lead?
My knee-jerk answer to this question is a young Russell Crowe. He seems pretty shady. He’d be perfect!
How did you come up with name of this book?
I never name my stories until they are finished (or very close to being finished). The working title for this one was simply Below. Why? I can’t even remember. I think it had something to do with water. Anyway, sometime during the second draft, I started honing in on the actual title. Novellas have a certain flair with their titles, and, in that spirit, I came up with We All Fall Before the Harvest.
If you could spend time with a character from your book whom would it be? And what would you do during that day?
Yikes. I wouldn’t want to be around any of these people. They’re awful! But, if you could stomach it, spending a few hours with The Family would probably be quite educational—and terrifying.
Are your characters based off real people or did they all come entirely from your imagination?
I sometimes use real folks as inspiration for characters in my stories, but for this book, everybody sprang from my imagination.
Do your characters seem to hijack the story or do you feel like you have the reigns of the story?
I’m definitely in control. The best my characters can achieve are small acts of sabotage against me, but, like some sort of corrections officer, I always get them back in line.
If your book had a candle, what scent would it be?
Hmm, let’s say, rotting vegetation, manure, pork rinds and a subtle undertone of patchouli. Yum!
Fun Facts/Behind the Scenes/Did You Know?’-type tidbits about the author, the book or the writing process of the book.
I wrote this book super-fast (for me at least). It took little less than a month and it was initially going to be a road trip story which would have concluded for the climax in Nova Scotia.
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C.M. Forest, also known as Christian Laforet, is the author of the novel Infested, as well as the novella We All Fall Before the Harvest. A self-proclaimed horror movie expert, he spent an embarrassing amount of his youth watching scary movies. When not writing, he lives in Ontario, Canada with his wife, kids, three cats and a pandemic dog named Sully who has an ongoing love affair with a blanket.
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