How long does it take to read Hollywood Gothic?
David J. Skal, Manuela Carmona García, David Muñoz Pantiga, Óscar Palmer Yáñez, El Pulpo Design
Hollywood Gothic by David J. Skal, Manuela Carmona García, David Muñoz Pantiga, Óscar Palmer Yáñez, El Pulpo Design takes about 5 hours 37 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 37 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1990. 306 pages, about 84,150 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 21 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 37 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 30 minutes |
The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The primal image of the black-caped vampire Dracula has become an indelible fixture of the modern imagination. It's recognition factor rivals, in its own perverse way, the familiarity of Santa Claus. Most of us can recite without prompting the salient characteristics of the vampire: sleeping by day in its coffin, rising at dusk to feed on the blood of the living; the ability to shapeshift into a bat, wolf, or mist; a mortal vulnerability to a wooden stake through the heart or a shaft of sunlight. In this critically acclaimed excursion through the life of a cultural icon, David Skal maps out the archetypal vampire's relentless trajectory from Victorian literary oddity to movie idol to cultural commodity, digging through the populist veneer to reveal what the prince of darkness says about us all.--From publisher description.
Subjects: Adaptations, Count Dracula (Fictitious character), English Horror tales, Film and video adaptations, History and criticism, Horror tales, English
