books by Thomas Tryon
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Thomas Tryon
Night of the Moonbow, The
Thomas Tryon
Dell
, 1990
twists and turns
Once I started reading this novel I really began to notice just how narrow-minded and ignorant people are. A lonely orphan boy comes to a boys camp(Bible camp full of good Christians no less)and is befriended by his cabin mates. After a series of unintentional ...
Wings Of The Morning, The
Thomas Tryon
Knopf
, 1990
Pequot Landing
The first in an unfinished series meant to be a trilogy, The Wings of the Morning is an engaging historical novel based on actual events that took place in Wethersfield, CT, the author's place of birth. Tryon took some liberties with history, moving some events from ...
Harvest Home
Thomas Tryon
Alfred A. Knopf
, 1973
OUTSTANDING GOTHIC CHILLER...
This is an exceptionally well written chiller. It takes place in Cornwall Coombe, a seemingly bucolic little hamlet in New England. It is to this idyllic locale that Ned Constantine, his wife, Beth, and their teenage daughter, Kate, move. Ned had quit his job as an ...
Harvest Home
Thomas Tryon
Fawcett Crest
, 1974
OUTSTANDING GOTHIC CHILLER...
This is an exceptionally well written chiller. It takes place in Cornwall Coombe, a seemingly bucolic little hamlet in New England. It is to this idyllic locale that Ned Constantine, his wife, Beth, and their teenage daughter, Kate, move. Ned had quit his job as an ...
Crowned Heads
Thomas Tryon
Dell
, 1987
CROWNED HEADS takes us into the interlocking lives of four film stars. First we meet Fedora, longest-reigning beauty of them all. Sexy Lorna comes next. We find her in a secluded resort trying to heal herself after many jobs, many men, and much trouble. Bobbitt is a former kiddie star now in his thirties and still "adorable." And Willie, ...
Harvest Home
Thomas Tryon
Knopf
, 1973
Beautiful, elegiac and haunting
"Harvest Home" is a novel that has haunted me since I first had the pleasure of reading it two decades ago. Thomas Tryon is a wonderfully descriptive writer whose elegant turn of phrase makes this novel a memorable horror story told in a very light way. This is a ...
The Other
Thomas Tryon
Centipede Press
, 2008
A gem of a horror story
Once upon a time there was a somewhat forgettable actor named Thomas Tryon who starred in a series of very forgettable movies ("The Cardinal" and a few others). Mr. Tryon wisely decided to forget about the forgettable and sat down and wrote a spooky little Gothic novel ...
Lady
Thomas Tryon
Dell
, 1987
A Five-Star Surprise
This book came to me by delicious accident: a friend found it in a box of books being given away in my apartment building laundry room. It sat on my shelf for years, until my supply of unread books began to dwindle, and I thought I'd give it a go, though I knew ...
All That Glitters
Thomas Tryon
Dell
, 1987
One of the best books I have ever read
I came across this book quite by accident, and couldn't put it down! Blending fiction with real life people, this book is engaging, funny and touching all at once. Tryon's characters come to life right in front of you, and you may find yourself asking "are these ...
Crowned Heads
Thomas Tryon
Book Club
The Adventures of Opal and Cupid
Thomas Tryon
Viking Juvenile
, 1992
A poor country girl joins a washed-up circus elephant on a journey through the small towns of the South to Broadway's Great White Way, with much mischief and adventure as they go, in an old-fashioned tale.
In the Fire of Spring
Thomas Tryon
Ivy Books
, 1994
"Unforgettable." The Washington Post Book World. The Civil War is still twenty years away when Rose, an escaped mulatto slave girl, arrives in the town of Pequot Landing. Soon after, a school for "colored misses" is established. This fuels a firestorm between the abolitionist Talcott family and the wealthy Grimes family, owners of mills that ...
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