How long does it take to read Black Candle?
Christine Randell
Black Candle by Christine Randell takes about 2 hours 56 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 56 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1968. 160 pages, about 44,000 words.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 53 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 56 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 50 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
I could feel that evil things had happened in this house and that evil people had lived here. Overlaying the chill, the damp, the smell of death and decay, was an overwhelming sense of awareness that evil forces were at work, and had been throughout the centuries. This is Lorna's first reaction to Maulicrane Farm where she has come to visit her dying father - a father she had never met. As the days pass, events prove to Lorna that there is still a very real danger at Maulicrane. At first she believes it is her father who is threatened - kept in a drugged state so that he cannot recover from his mysterious illness. Suddenly she learns that she herself is the target - the intended victim in a terrifying, deadly plot.
