Oh man, what happened Mr. Tryon? In the 70s you wrote four books, two of them classic horror novels, a literary small-town 'mystery' and four interlocked novellas about a fictionalized Hollywood. All of the books had distinct voices and observations. All That Glitters has the voice of some drunk ...
LADY recreates a small New England town of the 1930s and '40s. Seen through the eyes of an eight-year-old boy, Woody, we meet Lady, a charming widow, owner of an imposing home on the Green. As does Woody, we come to care for and love his "special friend."But there is more to Lady than meets the e...
Night of the Moonbow seems to be a struggle between two parts of Tryon's talent. He had proven himself as adept in conjuring up a small community and conveying the mechanics of life within it and in quietly building up an atmosphere of unease. In The Other, Harvest Home and Lady, Tryon focused on...
”Again I heard the cry, and I approached, circling the tree until I was looking at it from the opposite side. From gnarled roots to blasted top, the large trunk was split open, a dark wound where a bolt of lightning had rent it apart and fire had burned its center out, leaving it hollow. A mesh o...
Thomas Tryon brings to breathtaking life the Golden Age of Hollywood and the great golden people who became the crowned heads of this kingdom of stars FEDORA: Her enigma unriddled--the greatest, the most exquisite, the longest-reigning Hollywood star of them all. Now she has made an incredible c...
Entranced and terrified, the reader of The Other is swept up in the life of a Connecticut country town in the thirties-and in the fearful mysteries that slowly darken and overwhelm it.Originally published in 1971, The Other is one of the most influential horror novels ever written. Its impeccable...
It rattled as he set it on his saucer, and to keep his hands busy he smoothed his hair and readjusted his shirt. What had happened while he stood in the cabinet, braced, he thought, for any eventuality? He tried to recall the exact progression of feelings and events—the magician’s unctuous, mocki...