Bloodsucking Fiends vs Necroscope: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Vampires, Fiction
Bloodsucking Fiends
“Sundown painted purple across the great Pyramid while the Emperor enjoyed a steaming whiz against a dumpster in the alley below.”
At last, a love story you can really sink your teeth into! With a psychedelic inventiveness that invites comparison with Kurt Vonnegut and Tom Robbins, Christopher Moore, the author of Coyote Blue, spins a hip tale of…
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Necroscope
From the back cover: DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES Except to Harry Keogh, the Necroscope. And what they tell him is horrifying. Long buried in the mountains of Romania, bound by earth and silver, a master vampire lies…
The verdict
- Readers rate Bloodsucking Fiends highest: Bloodsucking Fiends 4.2 · Necroscope 3.9.
- Bloodsucking Fiends is the quickest read — about 5 hours vs 7 for Necroscope.
- Necroscope has the widest readership — 1004 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| Bloodsucking Fiends | Necroscope | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 3.9 (1004) |
| Hardcover | 3.7 (143) | 3.6 (85) |
| Google Books | 4.0 (1) | 5.0 (4) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (217) | 4.5 (15) |
Reception
| Bloodsucking Fiends | Necroscope | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 217 | 1004 |
| Editions | 6 | 22 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 1417 |
| Reading it now | — | 32 |
| Written reviews | — | 36 |
| Wikipedia attention | 446 | 2260 |
| Pages | 304 | 416 |