How long does it take to read American Gothic Tales?
American Gothic Tales by Joyce Carol Oates takes about 9 hours 58 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 58 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1996. 544 pages, about 149,600 words.
20 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 37 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 58 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 14 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Contents: Introduction Charles Brockden Brown (1771–1810), from Weiland, or The Transformation Washington Irving (1783–1859), The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864), The Man of Adamant, Young Goodman Brown Herman Melville (1819–1891), The Tartarus of Maids Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), The Black Cat Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935), The Yellow Wallpaper Henry James (1843–1916), The Romance of Certain Old Clothes Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914?), The Damned Thing Edith Wharton (1862–1937), Afterward Gertrude Atherton (1857–1948), The Striding Place Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941), Death in the Woods H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937), The Outsider William Faulkner (1893–1962), A Rose for Emily August Derleth (1909–1971), The Lonesome Place E. B. White (1899–1985), The Door Shirley Jackson (1919–1965), The Lovely House Paul Bowles (1910– ), Allal Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904–1991), The Reencounter William Goyen (1915–1983), In the Icebound Hothouse John Cheever (1912–1982), The Enormous Radio Ray Bradbury (1920– ), The Veldt W. S. Merwin (1927– ), The Dachau Shoe, The Approved, Spiders I Have Known, Postcards from the Maginot Line Sylvia Plath (1932–1963), Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams Robert Coover (1932– ), In Bed One Night Ursula K. Le Guin (1929– ), Schrodinger's Cat E. L. Doctorow (1931– ), The Waterworks Harlan Ellison (1934– ), Shattered Like a Glass Goblin Don DeLillo (1936– ), Human Moments in World War III John L'Heureux (1938– ), The Anatomy of Desire Raymond Carver (1938–1988), Little Things Joyce Carol Oates (1938– ), The Temple Anne Rice (1941– ), Freniere Peter Straub (1943– ), A Short Guide to the City Steven Millhauser (1943– ), In the Penny Arcade Stephen King (1947– ), The Reach Charles Johnson (1948– ), Exchange Value John Crowley (1942– ), Snow Thomas Ligotti (1947– ), The Last Feast of Harlequin Breece D'J Pancake (1952–1979), Time and Again Lisa Tuttle (1952– ), Replacements Melissa Pritchard (1948– ), Spirit Seizures Nancy…
Subjects: Gothic revival (Literature), American Horror tales, Schauererzählung, Short stories, american, Fiction, short stories (single author)
