Skeleton crew vs The Language of Fear: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: American Horror tales, Fiction
Skeleton crew
From the Flap: The Master at his scarifying best! From heart-pounding terror to the eeriest of whimsy--tales from the outer limits of one of the greatest imaginations of our time! Evil that breathes and walks and…
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The Language of Fear
It has 339 pages and is a collection of short dark fiction stories released in 1995 by Dell Books, a division of Bantam Doubleday Publishing, part of the "Abyss" line of psychological horror. It features an intro by W.…
The verdict
- Readers rate Skeleton crew highest: Skeleton crew 4.3 · The Language of Fear 3.8.
- The Language of Fear is the quickest read — about 5 hours vs 10 for Skeleton crew.
- Skeleton crew has the widest readership — 9615 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| Skeleton crew | The Language of Fear | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.3 (9615) | — |
| Hardcover | 3.7 (287) | — |
| Google Books | 5.0 (1) | 5.0 (1) |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (208) | — |
Reception
| Skeleton crew | The Language of Fear | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 9615 | 1 |
| Editions | 73 | 2 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | — |
| Want to read | 87037 | — |
| Reading it now | 88 | — |
| Written reviews | 4640 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 10288 | 120 |
| Pages | 576 | 319 |