How long does it take to read Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Horror and Supernatural of the 19Th Century?
Isaac Asimov, Charles G. Waugh, Martin H. Greenberg, Washington Irving, Honoré de Balzac, Captain Marryatt, William Mudford, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Edgar Allan Poe, Mrs. Gaskell, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford, Auguste comte de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Guy de Maupassant, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson, Anton Chekhov, W. C. Morrow, Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch, Ambrose Bierce, Kate Chopin, Bram Stoker, Edwin Lester Linden Arnold, Ralph Adams Cram, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, F. Marion Crawford, Robert Barr
Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Horror and Supernatural of the 19Th Century by Isaac Asimov, Charles G. Waugh, Martin H. Greenberg, Washington Irving, Honoré de Balzac, Captain Marryatt, William Mudford, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Edgar Allan Poe, Mrs. Gaskell, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford, Auguste comte de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Guy de Maupassant, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson, Anton Chekhov, W. C. Morrow, Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch, Ambrose Bierce, Kate Chopin, Bram Stoker, Edwin Lester Linden Arnold, Ralph Adams Cram, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, F. Marion Crawford, Robert Barr takes about 6 hours 45 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 45 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1983. 368 pages, about 101,200 words.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 15 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 45 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 13 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The adventure of the German student / Washington Irving -- El verdugo / Honoré de Balzac -- The story of the Greek slave / Captain Marryat -- The iron shroud / William Mudford -- Schalken the painter / J. Sheridan LeFanu -- The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe -- The doom of the Griffiths / Mrs. Gaskell -- Circumstance / Harriet Prescott Spofford -- Torture by hope / Villiers de L'Isle-Adam -- The diamond necklace / Guy de Maupassant -- The strange ride of Morrowbie Jukes / Rudyard Kipling -- Markheim / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Sleepyhead / Anton Chekov -- His unconquerable enemy / W.C. Morrow -- The gravedigger's daughter / Léopold von Sacher-Masoch -- An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce -- Vengeance / Lorimer Stoddard -- Désirée's baby / Kate Chopin -- The squaw / Bram Stoker -- A dreadful night / Edwin L. Arnold -- The dead valley / Ralph Adams Cram -- Pollock and the porroh man / H.G. Wells -- The story of the Brazilian cat / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- The dead smile / F. Marion Crawford -- A game of chess / Robert Barr.
Subjects: Paranormal fiction, Fiction, Horror tales, short stories, miscegenation, Louisiana Creoles
