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 ...
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...