How long does it take to read Ghost Story?
Ghost Story by Peter Straub takes about 9 hours 18 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 18 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1979. 507 pages, about 139,425 words.
19 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 30 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 18 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 49 minutes |
The page count is the median across 16 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In a seedy motel in Florida, a young man holds captive a little girl in a soiled pink dress. He is anxious, tormented, introspective. She is calm, passive, strangely detached. She says her name is Angie Maule.
Subjects: Horror tales, Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, science fiction, general, Fiction, horror, Paranormal fiction
