The Damned vs We Live Here Now: Which Should You Read?

Cover of The Damned 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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Cover of We Live Here Now We Live Here Now Sarah Pinborough · 2025 ★★★★☆ 3.9 320 pages · ≈ 5 h 56 m · Moderate

Award-winning author of New York Times bestselling breakout novel (and hit Netflix show) Behind Her Eyes returns with a haunting Gothic novel about a house—and a marriage—gone terribly wrong.After an accident that…

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The DamnedWe Live Here Now
Hardcover 4.3 (3) 3.7 (47)
Apple Books 4.0 (26) 4.0 (123)

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The DamnedWe Live Here Now
Ratings 26 123
Editions 106 2
Film adaptations 1 —
Wikipedia attention 188 143
Pages 110 320

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