Ancient Sorceries vs The Human Chord: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: English Fantasy fiction, Horror, Fantasy, Fiction
Ancient Sorceries
By turns bizarre, unsettling, spooky, and sublime, Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories showcases nine incomparable stories from master conjuror Algernon Blackwood. Evoking the uncanny spiritual forces of Nature,…
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The Human Chord
“As a boy he constructed so vividly in imagination that he came to believe in the living reality of his creations: for everybody and everything he found names-real names.”
It was an innocent enough advertisement but curious. "WANTED, by Retired Clergyman, Secretarial Assistant with courage and imagination. Tenor voice and some knowledge of Hebrew essential; single; unworldly. Apply Philip…
The verdict
- Readers rate Ancient Sorceries highest: Ancient Sorceries 3.7 · The Human Chord 3.5.
- Ancient Sorceries has the widest readership — 268 ratings behind its score.
- The Human Chord runs the darker storyline; Ancient Sorceries stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Ancient Sorceries | The Human Chord | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.7 (268) | 3.5 (250) |
| Hardcover | 4.0 (1) | — |
Reception
| Ancient Sorceries | The Human Chord | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 268 | 250 |
| Editions | 20 | 49 |
| Citations | — | 2 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | — |
| Want to read | 422 | 499 |
| Reading it now | 34 | 30 |
| Written reviews | 70 | 45 |
| Pages | 227 | 255 |