A friend liked this one better than Other. Overall I'm glad i revisited it and found many things in it that i'd totally forgotten and it is better than i remembered. I can't rank it as highly as The Other as i feel there are some moments that needed to be redrawn as they got a bit unbelievable or cliche, and i think that it meanders a bit along the way to it's goal, whereas the Other didn't feel like there was anything extraneous in it. Joseph Campbell deals with a lot of fertility rites etc that have some shocking elements and I think that Tryon's overall "reconstruction" of a society of that type is very well thought out. I like it very much for all those reasons (tidbits of lore and history etc.) and i think it is well researched as far as that goes. If you're familiar at all with Fowle's The Magus, the film the Wicker Man, fertility rites, Burnt Offerings, greek myth and Eleusinian mysteries you will pick up on what's going on early on and for that reason it didn't surprise me nor shock me. it is well done and a lot more in it than i remembered from having read it years ago. This is billed as an "oh my god" horror novel but it is not like that at all I don't think.
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