![]() ![]() The careers of William Peter Blatty, Stephen King, Anne Rice, and many others might never have blossomed if not for Rosemary’s Baby. But by situating his story in the high-class world of New York’s artistic set, and by winning blurbs from serious literary authors such as Truman Capote, Levin managed to almost single-handedly make the genre commercially viable if still not quite respectable. Reputable publishers rarely handled them. Prior to Rosemary’s Baby, horror novels were treated as second- or even third-class citizens of the publishing world. In Paperbacks From Hell, his seminal work on the rise of horror fiction in America, author Grady Hendryx, traces the horror boom to a single book, Levin’s novel Rosemary’s Baby. Tryon’s writing career also owes something to author Ira Levin. If so, fans of American popular fiction ought to be grateful to Preminger, for, after leaving the film industry, Tryon took up his pen and began writing bestselling novels. ![]() Legend has it that Otto Preminger was so abusive to Thomas Tryon, the star of Preminger’s film The Cardinal, that Tryon gave up acting after completing the film. ![]()
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