How long does it take to read Dead of Night?
Peter Haining, E. F. Benson, Thomas Prest, Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Burke, Rod Serling, Robert Block, Edgar Allan Poe, W. L. George, Nigel Kneale, Kingsley Amis, John Collier
Dead of Night by Peter Haining, E. F. Benson, Thomas Prest, Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Burke, Rod Serling, Robert Block, Edgar Allan Poe, W. L. George, Nigel Kneale, Kingsley Amis, John Collier takes about 3 hours 43 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 43 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1981. 203 pages, about 55,825 words. Written for children.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 12 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 43 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 20 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The bus conductor / E.F. Benson -- Sweeney Todd, the demon barber / Thomas Prest -- The middle toe of the right foot / Ambrose Bierce -- King's evidence / Algernon Blackwood -- The sire de Malétroit's door / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The hands of Mr. Ottermole / Thomas Burke -- A thing about machines / Rod Serling -- The weird tailor / Robert Block -- Pit and the Pendulum / Edgar Allan Poe -- Perez / W.L. George -- The pond / Nigel Kneale -- The ferryman / Kingsley Amis -- De mortuis / John Collier.
Subjects: Horror, Antologia, American Horror tales, Angol irodalom, English Horror tales, American fiction
