How long does it take to read Ghostly?
Audrey Niffenegger, Neil Gaiman, Ray Bradbury, Oliver Onions, M. R. James, P. G. Wodehouse, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred McLelland Burrage, A. S. Byatt, Saki, Kelly Link, Anna Giacalone Ramat, Rebecca Curtis, Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Wharton
Ghostly by Audrey Niffenegger, Neil Gaiman, Ray Bradbury, Oliver Onions, M. R. James, P. G. Wodehouse, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred McLelland Burrage, A. S. Byatt, Saki, Kelly Link, Anna Giacalone Ramat, Rebecca Curtis, Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Wharton takes about 8 hours 23 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 23 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2015. 457 pages, about 125,675 words. Written for children.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 58 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 23 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 14 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Black Cat / Edgar Allen Poe -- Secret life, with cats / Audrey Niffenegger -- Pomegranate seed / Edith Wharton -- The beckoning fair one / Oliver Onions -- The mezzotint / M.R. James -- Honeysuckle cottage / P.G. Wodehouse -- Click-clack the Rattlebag / Neil Gaiman -- They /Rudyard Kipling -- Playmates / A.M. Burrage -- The July ghost / A.S. Byatt -- Laura / Saki -- The open window / Saki -- The specialist's hat / Kelly Link -- Tiny ghosts / Amy Giacalone -- The pink house / Rebecca Curtis -- August 2026 : there will come soft rains / Ray Bradbury.
Subjects: fiction, horror fiction, cats, Children's fiction, short story, first-person narrative
