Ghostly companions vs Graven Images: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Occult fiction, Occultism, Ghosts, Supernatural, Short Stories, Children's fiction
Ghostly companions
From Publishers Weekly Alcock's fans will be well-spooked by the strange events in this anthology of wonderfully eerie stories. In "The Whisperer," a small girl who has been dead for years haunts her older brother with…
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Graven Images
A collection of three stories about a child who reads the lips of those who whisper secrets into a statue's ear; a daydreaming shoemaker's apprentice who must find ways to make the girl he loves notice him; and a stone…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Graven Images has the widest readership — 809 ratings behind its score.
- Graven Images runs the darker storyline; Ghostly companions stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Ghostly companions | Graven Images | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 3.6 (809) |
| Hardcover | — | 3.7 (3) |
Reception
| Ghostly companions | Graven Images | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 2 | 809 |
| Editions | 8 | 15 |
| Film adaptations | — | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 940 |
| Reading it now | — | 13 |
| Written reviews | — | 95 |
| Wikipedia attention | — | 39 |
| Pages | 128 | 85 |