The Other
  • Published: 15 October 2012
  • ISBN: 9781590175835
  • Imprint: NY Review Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $37.99

The Other

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Holland and Niles Perry are identical thirteen-year-old twins. They are close, close enough, almost, to read each other’s thoughts, but they couldn’t be more different. Holland is bold and mischievous, a bad influence, while Niles is kind and eager to please, the sort of boy who makes parents proud. The Perrys live in the bucolic New England town their family settled centuries ago, and as it happens, the extended clan has gathered at its ancestral farm this summer to mourn the death of the twins’ father in a most unfortunate accident. Mrs. Perry still hasn’t recovered from the shock of her husband’s gruesome end and stays sequestered in her room, leaving her sons to roam free. As the summer goes on, though, and Holland’s pranks become increasingly sinister, Niles finds he can no longer make excuses for his brother’s actions.

Thomas Tryon’s best-selling novel about a homegrown monster is an eerie examination of the darkness that dwells within everyone. It is a landmark of psychological horror that is a worthy descendent of the books of James Hogg, Robert Louis Stevenson, Shirley Jackson, and Patricia Highsmith.
  • Published: 15 October 2012
  • ISBN: 9781590175835
  • Imprint: NY Review Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $37.99
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Praise for The Other

  • "It is perhaps unfair and a little inaccurate to typecast The Other as a horror story. It is so ingenious and well-written that it transcends that--or any--label...His [Tryon's] characterizations have depth and subtlety, the narrative is well-paced and suspenseful. Where he really excels is with mood and atmosphere. Rarely have such commonplace surroundings been made to seem quite so dark and menacing and chillingly evil." - Chicago Tribune

  • "A lyrical, impressive horror story that is a cross between The Bad Seed and John Cheever's The Wapshot Chronicles." - Los Angeles Times

  • "If you're looking for a good scary book to enjoy this Halloween, here is a suggestion: The Other by Thomas Tryon. The 1971 horror classic is a tale of a seemingly bucolic farmhouse in a small Connecticut town in the 1930s." - Advocate (Baton Rouge)

  • "A smashing suspense-horror novel." - Minneapolis Tribune

  • "Tryon succeeds in creating a story that cast a subtly savage spell." - Saturday Review

  • "Thomas Tryon has unfolded a horror story of supreme proportions." - Los Angeles Herald-Examiner