“…just when you think this is actually a psychological horror novel and it’s going to just be mind games, there’s a terrific and breathtaking build-up to a really fantastically gruesome death - and the novel spins off in yet another direction. Then, as various lines of reality begin to dissolve, you have to wonder about everything…”
Excerpted from Raging Biblioholism’s review of Thomas Tryon’s “The Other” (published by NYRB Classics)
http://ragingbiblioholism.com/2012/10/03/the-other/