- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Pathogen Press, Phoenix, AZ, U.S.A.Pathogen Press
AbeBooks seller since November 30, 2025
Condition: Used - Good
£ 114.73
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketItem description from seller
Own one of the greatest horror books ever written, The Other, by Thomas Tryon. Good condition hardback with dust jacket. First editing, seventh printing, 1971. Spine straight and pages are clean. One signature mark on book board. 275 pp.
Seller Inventory # ABE-1768966100146
- Title
- The Other
- Author
- Tryon, Thomas
- Publisher
- Alfred a Knopf Inc
- Publication year
- 1971
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0394467442
- ISBN 13
- 9780394467443
- Illustrator
- Paul Bacon
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 5th or later Printing
- Item weight
- 496 grams
- Dimensions
- 0 centimeters width by 22 centimeters height by 2.7 centimeters depth
- Seller catalogs
- Classic, First Edition, Horror
"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
Review
A lyrical, impressive horror story that is a cross between The Bad Seed and John Cheever s The Wapshot Chronicles. Los Angeles Times
This first novel from Thomas Tryon is a distinguished one, it may well leave you blenched with horror, but it is beautifully, even poetically, wrought, and within its boundaries there would seem an actual divination into the spirit of murderess insanity .In due time The Other will doubtless become one of the classics of horro tales, comparable to The Turn of the Screw. Dorothy B. Hughes Los Angeles Times
Like most professional writers, I resent Tom Tryon s The Other, since Tryon should get on with the job of being a good actor and not write good books as well. Enough is enough already. The Other is a highly readable chiller. Anthony Burgess
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. There are no vampires in the story, no ghosts, no swamp monsters or ghouls or zombies or witches. There are two little boys, twins Niles and Holland, the picture of innocence. Or so it seems. The story is told in the voice of one of the boys, now older and a resident of a sanitarium. Insanity, it seems, is a family inheritance, and insanity is at the core of the chilling story that slowly unfolds and culminates in some horrifying deaths. Advocate (Baton Rouge)
Truly extraordinary! One of those books over which everybody will take leave their senses, all seven of them Kirkus
A smashing suspense-horror novel. Minneapolis Tribune
A humdinger A whirlpool of Oh-My-God horror. Please congratulate Mr. Tryon for me. What a marvelous job he s done. Ira Levin, author of Rosemary s Baby
Tryon succeeds in creating a story that cast a subtly savage spell. Saturday Review
The Other is an all-out war on reality. Chicago Sun-Times
The most memorable chiller-thriller to come along since Rosemary s Baby .A tale of evil obsession with surprises and shockers. Hartford Courant
Thomas Tryon has unfolded a horror story of supreme proportions. Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
A psychological thriller that you read a second time to see how the author did it. Cleveland Plain Dealer
Thomas Tryon s The Other will scare the hell right out of you .You re almost afraid to turn the next page. Rocky Mountain News"
"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. The setting is the small Connecticut town of Pequot Landing, which under other circumstances, might be idyllic. But the people who inhabit Tryon's New England are just as haunted as O'Neill's, and a lot more violent...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
"This first novel from Thomas Tryon is a distinguished one, it may well leave you blenched with horror, but it is beautifully, even poetically, wrought, and within its boundaries there would seem an actual divination into the spirit of murderess insanity....In due time The Other will doubtless become one of the classics of horro tales, comparable to The Turn of the Screw." - Dorothy B. Hughes Los Angeles Times
"Like most professional writers, I resent Tom Tryon's The Other, since Tryon should get on with the job of being a good actor and not write good books as well. Enough is enough already. The Other is a highly readable chiller." - Anthony Burgess
"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. There are no vampires in the story, no ghosts, no swamp monsters or ghouls or zombies or witches. There are two little boys, twins Niles and Holland, the picture of innocence. Or so it seems. The story is told in the voice of one of the boys, now older and a resident of a sanitarium. Insanity, it seems, is a family inheritance, and insanity is at the core of the chilling story that slowly unfolds and culminates in some horrifying deaths." - Advocate (Baton Rouge)
"Truly extraordinary! One of those books over which everybody will take leave their senses, all seven of them..." - Kirkus
"A smashing suspense-horror novel." - Minneapolis Tribune
"A humdinger...A whirlpool of Oh-My-God horror. Please congratulate Mr. Tryon for me. What a marvelous job he's done." - Ira Levin, author of Rosemary's Baby
"Tryon succeeds in creating a story that cast a subtly savage spell." - Saturday Review
"The Other is an all-out war on reality." - Chicago Sun-Times
"The most memorable chiller-thriller to come along since Rosemary's Baby....A tale of evil obsession with surprises and shockers." - Hartford Courant
"Thomas Tryon has unfolded a horror story of supreme proportions." - Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
"A psychological thriller that you read a second time to see how the author did it." - Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Thomas Tryon's The Other will scare the hell right out of you....You're almost afraid to turn the next page." - Rocky Mountain News
"About the title" may belong to another edition of this title.
Pathogen Press
Phoenix, AZ, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since November 30, 2025
Shipping rates within U.S.A.
| Item | 5 to 14 business days | 3 to 6 business days |
|---|---|---|
| First item | £ 8.97 | £ 17.19 |
Payment methods
Store description
Pathogen Press is your desert-born online literary outpost. Every title is handpicked from a growing archive of rare and classic books.
Specialty
Pathogen Press: Specializing in early and rare editions of timeless horror, science fiction, poetry, and classics.Seller's business information
Pathogen Press
AZ, U.S.A.
Terms of sale
Pathogen Press is your desert-born online literary outpost. Every title is handpicked from a growing archive of rare and unusual first editions of cult classics.
Right of withdrawal
If you are a consumer you can withdraw from the contract in accordance with the following. Consumer means any natural person who is acting for purposes which are outside his trade, business, craft or profession.
Information regarding the right of withdrawal
Statutory right to withdraw
You have the right to withdraw from this contract within 14 days without giving any reason.
The withdrawal period will expire after 14 days from the day on which you acquire, or a third party other than the carrier and indicated by you acquires, physical possession of the last good or the last lot or piece.
To exercise the right of withdrawal, electronically fill in and submit a clear statement on our website, under "My Purchases" in "My Account". We will communicate to you an acknowledgement of receipt of such a withdrawal on a durable medium (e.g. by e-mail) without delay.
To meet the withdrawal deadline, it is sufficient for you to send your communication concerning your exercise of the right of withdrawal before the withdrawal period has expired.
Effects of withdrawal
If you withdraw from this contract, we will reimburse to you all payments received from you, including the costs of delivery (except for the supplementary costs arising if you chose a type of delivery other than the least expensive type of standard delivery offered by us).
We may make a deduction from the reimbursement for loss in value of any goods supplied, if the loss is the result of unnecessary handling by you.
We will make the reimbursement without undue delay, and not later than 14 days after the day on which we are informed about your decision to withdraw from this contract.
We will make the reimbursement using the same means of payment as you used for the initial transaction, unless you have expressly agreed otherwise; in any event, you will not incur any fees as a result of such reimbursement.
We may withhold reimbursement until we have received the goods back, or you have supplied evidence of having sent back the goods, whichever is the earliest.
You shall send back the goods or hand them over to Pathogen Press, 4732 W. Columbine Dr., 85304, Glendale, Arizona, U.S.A., +1 5038630311, without undue delay and in any event not later than 14 days from the day on which you communicate your withdrawal from this contract to us. The deadline is met if you send back the goods before the period of 14 days has expired. You will have to bear the direct cost of returning the goods. You are only liable for any diminished value of the goods resulting from the handling other than what is necessary to establish the nature, characteristics and functioning of the goods.
Exceptions to the right of withdrawal
The right of withdrawal does not apply to:
- The delivery of newspapers, journals or magazines with the exception of subscription contracts; and
- The supply of digital content which is not supplied on a tangible medium (e.g. on a CD or DVD) if you accepted when you placed your order that we could start to deliver it, and that you could not withdraw once delivery had started.
Shipping terms
Shipping costs are based on books weighing 2.2 LB, or 1 KG. If your book order is heavy or oversized, we may contact you to let you know extra shipping is required.