Ancient Sorceries vs Fragile Things: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: English Horror tales, English Fantasy fiction, English Short stories, Short Stories, Fantasy fiction, Horror
Ancient Sorceries
By turns bizarre, unsettling, spooky, and sublime, Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories showcases nine incomparable stories from master conjuror Algernon Blackwood. Evoking the uncanny spiritual forces of Nature,…
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Fragile Things
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The verdict
- Readers rate Fragile Things highest: Fragile Things 3.9 · Ancient Sorceries 3.7.
- Ancient Sorceries is the quickest read — about 4 hours vs 7 for Fragile Things.
- Fragile Things has the widest readership — 72215 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Ancient Sorceries | Fragile Things | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.7 (268) | 3.9 (72215) |
| Hardcover | 4.0 (1) | 3.8 (249) |
| Google Books | — | 3.0 (1) |
| Apple Books | — | 4.0 (88) |
Reception
| Ancient Sorceries | Fragile Things | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 268 | 72215 |
| Editions | 20 | 32 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 422 | 60049 |
| Reading it now | 34 | 4192 |
| Written reviews | 70 | 4780 |
| Wikipedia attention | — | 473 |
| Pages | 227 | 400 |