![]() ![]() “Like most professional writers, I resent Tom Tryon’s The Other, since Tryon should get on with the job of being a good actor and not write good books as well. ![]() “This first novel from Thomas Tryon is a distinguished one, it may well leave you blenched with horror, but it is beautifully, even poetically, wrought, and within its boundaries there would seem an actual divination into the spirit of murderess insanity.In due time The Other will doubtless become one of the classics of horro tales, comparable to The Turn of the Screw.” – Dorothy B. “A lyrical, impressive horror story that is a cross between The Bad Seed and John Cheever’s The Wapshot Chronicles.” – Los Angeles Times Rarely have such commonplace surroundings been made to seem quite so dark and menacing and chillingly evil.” – Chicago Tribune Where he really excels is with mood and atmosphere. But the people who inhabit Tryon’s New England are just as haunted as O’Neill’s, and a lot more violent.His characterizations have depth and subtlety, the narrative is well-paced and suspenseful. The setting is the small Connecticut town of Pequot Landing, which under other circumstances, might be idyllic. ![]() ![]() It is so ingenious and well-written that it transcends that-or any-label. “It is perhaps unfair and a little inaccurate to typecast The Other as a horror story. ![]()
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