How long does it take to read 999?
Al Sarrantonio, Stephen King, William Peter Blatty, Joyce Carol Oates
999 by Al Sarrantonio, Stephen King, William Peter Blatty, Joyce Carol Oates takes about 12 hours 37 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 12 hours 37 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1999. 688 pages, about 189,200 words.
26 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 21 hours 1 minute |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 12 hours 37 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 53 minutes |
The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A collection of stories on the supernatural. They range from Thomas Disch's story, The Owl and the Pussycat, which is on the marriage of an owl and a cat, to Kim Newman's Amerikanski Dead at the Moscow Morgue, which is about American zombies in Russia.
Subjects: Fiction, short stories (single author), Fiction, thrillers, suspense, Fiction, horror, American Detective and mystery stories, American Horror tales
