“Terror Under the Elms”
An immediate critical and popular success on its release, The Other has long been regarded as a classic of the horror genre, a work that, like The Turn of the Screw, The Haunting of Hill House or We Have Always Lived in the Castle is as artful as it is unnerving. As in those other works, we are never quite sure where the protagonist’s idiosyncratic perceptions end and ‘reality’ begins, and the author’s prose plays an integral role in maintaining the ambiguity at the story’s heart.
—from a review of Thomas Tryon’s The Other by Holly Hunt in the California Literary Review. Horror fiction is for all year.
