
#160 in Horror
The Keep
- 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.
Reading order · The Adversary Cycle
Full order & progress →- The KeepThis book
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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.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 7.3 | 56 | 100% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Keep?
It has 379 pages — shorter than 55% of the ranked books in Horror.
In this book
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