The Forbidden Zone vs Treasure Box: Which Should You Read?

Cover of The Forbidden Zone The Forbidden Zone Whitley Strieber · 1993 ★★★☆☆ 3.4 309 pages · ≈ 5 h 43 m · Moderate

The mound, a quiet town gathering spot ... until now. Now something undeniably evil is hiding beneath it. A powerful darkness, terror with unfathomable needs and desires, spreading its roots in secret, transforming all…

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Cover of Treasure Box Treasure Box Orson Scott Card · 1996 ★★★☆☆ 3.4 384 pages · ≈ 7 h 07 m · Moderate

A reclusive millionaire's hasty marriage leads to chilling revelations in the renowned author's "enthrallingly entertaining" supernatural horror novel (Booklist). Software engineer Quentin Fears was only 10 when his…

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The verdict

Scores by source

The Forbidden ZoneTreasure Box
Goodreads 3.4 (365) 3.4 (4344)
Hardcover 2.7 (3) 3.3 (20)
Apple Books 3.5 (5) —

Reception

The Forbidden ZoneTreasure Box
Ratings 365 4344
Editions 11 10
Film adaptations 1 1
Want to read — 1335
Reading it now — 90
Written reviews — 254
Wikipedia attention 60 89
Pages 309 384

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