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Horror Book Club – The Other (Zoom)

Friday, December 30, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EST

Do you enjoy stories about ghosts, vampires, or even non-supernatural spooks? Join us the last Friday* of every month at 7:00 PM for a virtual book discussion hosted on Zoom!

The Other by Thomas Tryon

Holland and Niles Perry are identical thirteen-year-old twins. They are close, close enough, almost, to read each other’s thoughts, but they couldn’t be more different. Holland is bold and mischievous, a bad influence, while Niles is kind and eager to please, the sort of boy who makes parents proud. The Perrys live in the bucolic New England town their family settled centuries ago, and as it happens, the extended clan has gathered at its ancestral farm this summer to mourn the death of the twins’ father in a most unfortunate accident. Mrs. Perry still hasn’t recovered from the shock of her husband’s gruesome end and stays sequestered in her room, leaving her sons to roam free. As the summer goes on, though, and Holland’s pranks become increasingly sinister, Niles finds he can no longer make excuses for his brother’s actions.

Thomas Tryon’s best-selling novel about a homegrown monster is an eerie examination of the darkness that dwells within everyone. It is a landmark of psychological horror that is a worthy descendent of the books of James Hogg, Robert Louis Stevenson, Shirley Jackson, and Patricia Highsmith.

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Thanks to the Friends of William Jeanes Memorial Library’s Mary Knowles Technology Fund for sponsoring live captioning of this and other Zoom events.

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Friday, December 30, 2022
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7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EST
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4051 Joshua Road
Lafayette Hill, PA 19444 United States
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NO PUBLIC COMPUTERS TODAY

Due to a software issue, the public computers are still out of service.

However, you will still have access to wi-fi, copying, scanning, and mobile printing.

This is WJM-specific, and does not affect our neighboring libraries, if you need to use a public computer.

**However, Springfield Library is closed Tuesday, 11/5.

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