Thomas Tryon

The Other

Ned Constantine and his family abandon hectic New York for a tranquil New England village where they unknowingly become part of the secret Harvest Home ritual

Harvest Home

A Novel

New edition of the classic overlooked horror novel with the original cover art by Paul Bacon and new interior art.

An awkward, mysterious orphan becomes the victim of a cabal at a summer Bible camp.

Night of the Moonbow

L'altro

Arnold William Brunner

Interior Decoration

Clive George Wilson

Young Opal Thigpen meets Cupid, an elephant in a traveling show, and the two have a series of adventures as they rise to stardom.

A Story

The Adventures of Opal and Cupid

Occasionally Distributed in Subjects, Viz. Philosophical, Theological, and Moral

Tryon's Letters, Domestick and Foreign, to Several Persons of Quality

Lady

The interlocking lives of five Hollywood leading ladies spawn “tragedies, dark doings, jealousies, murder, passion on the grand scale” (Chicago Tribune). Charlie Caine has been to too many Hollywood funerals. The studio system is long gone, and its stars—some forgotten, some preserved for display on a late-night show—are beginning to pass on, as well. Only a few turn out for the final performance of Babe Austrian, a peroxide-blond beauty whose red-hot talkies changed the way America thought about sex. As he gazes into her coffin, Caine remembers Babe as she was: a dynamite beauty with secrets that could have burned Hollywood to the ground. In Babe and four other interlocking novellas, Caine recalls the leading ladies of long-lost Hollywood: Belinda, whose daughter was as cruel as she was lovely; Claire, who would do anything to stay in the public eye; April, fragile, beautiful, and mad; and Maude, Hollywood’s most respected matron, whose happy marriage had a lie at its heart. Charlie Caine knows where cinema’s bodies are buried, and he’s anxious to start digging.

All That Glitters

In Opposition to Tradition, Custom and Bigottry, the Governors of the Present and All Preceding Generations

The Knowledge of a Man's Self the Surest Guide to the True Worship of God, and Good Government of the Mind and Body

“A spellbinder with a twisted ending . . . You can’t put it down”—from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Other (Des Moines Register). In Pequot Landing, there are two sights to see: the largest elm in America, which dominates the stately old village green, and the house of Lady Harleigh. When the Great War ended, she was the most beautiful bride in the village, and though she was widowed soon after, mourning dampened neither her beauty nor her spirits. By the time the Great Depression rolls around, she is the unchallenged center of Pequot society—lovely and energetic, but subject to bouts of grim melancholy that hint at something dark beneath her surface. Woody is eight years old when he first notices the Lady, and her glittering elegance captures his heart. He spends his boyhood deeply in love with the mysterious widow, obsessed with the sadness that lies at her core. As he gets closer to her, he finds that Lady Harleigh is haunted—not just by grief, but by a scandalous secret that, if revealed, could change Pequot Landing forever.

A Discourse of Temperance and the Particular Nature of All Things Requisit for the Life of Man...

The Way to Health, Long Life and Happiness, Or

From horror to Hollywood, three haunting novels from the New York Times–bestselling author of Crowned Heads and The Other. Harvest Home: After escaping New York City for the idyllic New England village of Cornwall Coombe, the Constantine family wins the friendship of the town matriarch, the mysterious Widow Fortune, who invites them to join the ancient festival of Harvest Home. But something far more sinister than the annual harvest is about to rise out of the earth in this New York Times bestseller. “[A] brilliantly imagined horror story.” —The Boston Globe Lady: In the town of Pequot Landing during the Great Depression, a young man becomes transfixed by a beautiful, mysterious widow. As Woody gets closer to her, he finds that Lady Harleigh is haunted—not just by grief, but by a scandalous secret that, if revealed, could change Pequot Landing forever. Lady is a New York Times bestseller. “A spellbinder with a twisted ending . . . enchanting entertainment. You can’t put it down.” —The Des Moines Register All That Glitters: In five interlocking novellas, cynical writer Charlie Caine recalls the leading ladies of long-lost Hollywood: Babe, a red-hot, peroxide-blond beauty with secrets that could have burned Tinseltown to the ground; Belinda, whose daughter was as cruel as she was lovely; Claire, who would do anything to stay in the public eye; April, fragile, beautiful, and mad; and Maude, Hollywood’s most respected matron, whose happy marriage had a lie at its heart. “One unforgettable novel with the power to shock . . . very believable . . . [readers] will find pleasure in guessing which real-life actresses Tryon has used as models.” —The Washington Post

Harvest Home, Lady, All That Glitters

The Collected Novels Volume One

Though the greats of Hollywood may fade, their secrets live on forever Fedora is dead, and movies will never be the same. A star since the early days of Hollywood, she survived the business for an unprecedented four decades before retiring to Crete. As the years wore on and her costars turned wrinkled and worn, Fedora’s perfect features never faded. Now that she has finally passed, the secret to her longevity will be told—a shocking revelation that will raise her to the level of myth. These four novellas tell the story of Fedora and three of her costars in 1955’s infamous The Miracle of Santa Cristi. Alongside the ageless beauty are William Marsh, whose days as a leading man are numbered; Bobbitt, a former child star still trading on his boyish good looks; and Lorna, a dim bulb who’s too sexy for her own good. When the film was shot, they were headed in different directions, but all ended up in the same place: forgotten, loathed, and unlamented.

Crowned Heads

Holland e Niles Perry sono gemelli identici di tredici anni. Molto legati, tanto da poter quasi leggere il pensiero l’uno dell’altro, ma anche molto diversi: Holland, audace e dispettoso, negli occhi una luce sinistra, esercita il suo carisma sul fratello Niles, gentile e remissivo, desideroso di compiacere gli altri, il tipo di ragazzo che rende orgogliosi i genitori. Hanno da poco perso il padre in un tragico incidente e vivono in una fattoria del New England con la madre e la nonna. Le giornate estive in campagna sono lunghe e noiose ma la fantasia multiforme dei ragazzi è un’arma efficace, che si alimenta di oggetti preziosi custoditi gelosamente in una vecchia scatola di latta, assi che scricchiolano e orecchie tese a percepire passi misteriosi, spettacoli macabri inscenati in cantina e vecchie storie che sembravano dimenticate. Ecco però che l’incantesimo dell’infanzia si spezza: una dopo l’altra, una serie di figure vicine ai ragazzi vengono coinvolte in cruenti fatti di sangue. E diventerà presto chiaro che la mano dietro a queste inquietanti tragedie può essere una sola... L’eterno fascino perturbante dei gemelli è protagonista in questo romanzo in cui nulla è come sembra, che rapisce il lettore e lo conduce attraverso una sottile analisi dell’oscurità che dimora dentro ognuno di noi. Il ritorno di un grande classico dell’horror, bestseller da tre milioni e mezzo di copie, paragonato a Shirley Jackson e Patricia Highsmith e precursore dell’esplosione del genere insieme a pietre miliari come L’esorcista. «Il primo romanzo di Thomas Tryon è davvero notevole. Potrebbe farvi impallidire dalla paura, ma è costruito in maniera meravigliosa, perfino poetica... A tempo debito diventerà uno dei classici dell’orrore, come Il giro di vite di Henry James». Dororthy B. Hughes, «Los Angeles Times» «Come la maggior parte degli scrittori, sono infastidito da L’altro di Thomas Tryon: Tryon dovrebbe continuare a essere un bravo attore e non scrivere anche ottimi libri. Quando è troppo è troppo. L’altro è una storia paurosa godibilissima». Anthony Burgess «Una cannonata... Un vortice di orrore da “Oh mio dio!”. Congratulazioni al signor Tryon. Che meraviglioso lavoro ha fatto». Ira Levin, autore di Rosemary’s Baby

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