How long does it take to read Famous Modern Ghost Stories?
Dorothy Scarborough, Algernon Blackwood, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Robert W. Chambers, Leonid Andreyev, Anatole France, Fitz-James O'Brien, Ambrose Bierce, Olivia Howard Dunbar, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Myla Jo Closser, Edgar Allan Poe, Richard Le Gallienne, Arthur Machen, Guy de Maupassant, W. F. Harvey, Dorothy 1878-1935 Scarborough, Ed Dorothy Scarborogh
Famous Modern Ghost Stories by Dorothy Scarborough, Algernon Blackwood, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Robert W. Chambers, Leonid Andreyev, Anatole France, Fitz-James O'Brien, Ambrose Bierce, Olivia Howard Dunbar, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Myla Jo Closser, Edgar Allan Poe, Richard Le Gallienne, Arthur Machen, Guy de Maupassant, W. F. Harvey, Dorothy 1878-1935 Scarborough, Ed Dorothy Scarborogh takes about 4 hours 50 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 50 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1921. 264 pages, about 72,600 words. Written for children.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 4 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 50 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 2 minutes |
The page count is the median across 45 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Willows / Algernon Blackwood The Shadows on the Wall / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman The Messenger / Robert W. Chambers Lazarus / Leonid Andreyev The Beast with Five Fingers / W.f. Harvey The Mass of Shadows / Anatole France What Was It? / Fitz James O'brien The Middle Toe of the Right Foot / Ambrose Bierce The Shell of Sense / Olivia Howard Dunbar The Woman At Seven Brothers / Wilbur Daniel Steele At the Gate / Myla Jo Closser Ligeia / Edgar Allan Poe The Haunted Orchard / Richard le Gallienne The Bowmen / Arthur Machen A Ghost / Guy de Maupassant
Subjects: Ghost stories, Children's fiction