Shadows Over Innsmouth vs The Damned: Which Should You Read?

Both live on shelves: Horror

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Shadows Over Innsmouth Stephen Jones, H. P. Lovecraft, Basil Copper, Jack Yeovil, Guy N. Smith, Adrian Cole, D F Lewis, Ramsay Campbell, David Sutton, Peter Tremayne, Kim Newman, Brian Mooney, Brian Stableford, Nicholas Royle & David Lanford ★★★★☆ 4.0 Unknown

Shadows over Innsmouth is an American anthology of stories edited by Stephen Jones. It was published by Fedogan & Bremer in 1994 in an edition of 2,100 copies of which 100 were signed by the contributors. The anthology…

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The Damned Algernon Blackwood · 2002 ★★★★☆ 3.9 110 pages · ≈ 2 h 02 m · Moderate

The Damned is a chilling tale of supernatural horror from one of the great masters of horror fiction, Algernon Blackwood.

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The verdict

Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
Shadows Over Innsmouth has the widest readership — 39 ratings behind its score.

Scores by source

	Shadows Over Innsmouth	The Damned
Hardcover	4.1 (39)	4.3 (3)
Apple Books	—	4.0 (26)

Reception

	Shadows Over Innsmouth	The Damned
Ratings	39	26
Editions	—	106
Film adaptations	—	1
Wikipedia attention	349	188
Pages	—	110

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The verdict

Scores by source

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