How long does it take to read Alhazred?
Author of the Necronomicon
Alhazred by Donald Tyson takes about 12 hours 14 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 12 hours 14 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2006. 667 pages, about 183,425 words.
25 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 20 hours 23 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 12 hours 14 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 39 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Based around the idea of an unknown author of the iconic dark book the Necronomicon. The book follows a commoner from Yemen in the courts of an Arabian king. Swept into delirious dreams and prophetic nightmares, he feels he must escape back to the comfort of the world he knows, without understanding how or why such things are happening. The book explores many of the ideas which are intrinsic to modern witchcraft and inspired by the cosmic horror of H.P. Lovecraft, the book reads as a classic set in the background of Neil Gaiman's the Graveyard book.
Subjects: Fiction, Magicians, Magicians in fiction, Fiction, fantasy, general, Middle east, fiction, Fiction, occult & supernatural
