Prester John vs Room 13: Which Should You Read?

Prester John John Buchan · 1900 ★★★★☆ 3.6 270 pages · ≈ 5 h 00 m · Challenging

I mind as if it were yesterday my first sight of the man. Little I knew at the time how big the moment was with destiny, or how often that face seen in the fitful moonlight would haunt my sleep and disturb my waking…

Room 13 Edgar Wallace · 1920 ★★★★☆ 3.5 184 pages · ≈ 3 h 24 m · Challenging

After having spent almost three years in prison Johnny Gray is released, only to be dismayed to find that his ladylove has been pressured by her father, an old friend of his, into marrying another man. Soon after,…