Last Days vs The Damned: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Horror
Last Days
Last Days (winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel of the Year) by Adam Nevill is a Blair Witch style novel in which a documentary film-maker undertakes the investigation of a dangerous cult—with…
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The Damned
The Damned is a chilling tale of supernatural horror from one of the great masters of horror fiction, Algernon Blackwood.
Side by side
The verdict
- Readers rate The Damned highest: The Damned 3.9 · Last Days 3.7.
- The Damned is the quickest read — about 2 hours vs 10 for Last Days.
- Last Days has the widest readership — 17200 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| Last Days | The Damned | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.7 (17200) | — |
| Hardcover | 4.0 (1) | 4.3 (3) |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (175) | 4.0 (26) |
Reception
| Last Days | The Damned | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 17200 | 26 |
| Editions | — | 106 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 54744 | — |
| Reading it now | 3077 | — |
| Written reviews | 2500 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 2738 | 188 |
| Pages | 544 | 110 |