The Keep

#160 in Horror

The Keep

F. Paul Wilson

First published 1981Original language EN

7.47.4 / 10
Score out of 1056 ratingsConfidence 28%: this much of the score is the readers’ own
#160 of 200 in Horror ahead of 20% of the category
379
Pages
about 7 h
Reading time

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About the book

The Keep is a 1981 horror novel by American writer F. Paul Wilson. It is also the first volume in a series of six novels known as The Adversary Cycle. It appeared on the New York Times Best Seller list and has been adapted into a film by Michael Mann in 1983 and as a limited series of comics in 2006.

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Reading order · The Adversary Cycle

Full order & progress →
  1. The Keep
    The Keep1981 · 56 ratingsThis book
    7.47.4 / 10
  2. Reborn
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  3. Nightworld
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  4. Reprisal
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  5. The Touch
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Where the score comes from

The sources average 7.3 across 56 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 28% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Horror average of 7.5. That is how 7.4 comes out.

SourceAverageRatingsWeight
Hardcover7.356 100%

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How long is The Keep?

It has 379 pages — shorter than 55% of the ranked books in Horror.

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