How long does it take to read Scary Stories?
Barry Moser, Dean Koontz, Edgar Allan Poe, Roald Dahl, Stephen King, Shirley Jackson, Ray Bradbury, Ambrose Bierce
Scary Stories by Barry Moser, Dean Koontz, Edgar Allan Poe, Roald Dahl, Stephen King, Shirley Jackson, Ray Bradbury, Ambrose Bierce takes about 3 hours 22 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 22 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2006. 184 pages, about 50,600 words. Written for children.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 37 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 22 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 7 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Kittens / Dean Koontz -- The Magic Shop / H.G. Wells -- Miriam / Truman Capote -- Tell-tale Heart / Edgar Allan Poe -- Genesis and catastrophe (a true story) / Roald Dahl -- The squaw / Bram Stoker -- Here there be tygers / Stephen King -- Man overboard! / Winston Churchill -- The lottery / Shirley Jackson -- The bus-conductor / E.F. Benson -- Thanksgiving / Joyce Carol Oates -- Excerpt from The legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving -- The terrible old man / H.P. Lovecraft -- John Charrington's wedding / E. Nesbit -- The furnished room / O. Henry -- The man upstairs / Ray Bradbury -- The music on the hill / Saki -- The boarded window / Ambrose Bierce -- Fingers on the back of the neck / Margaret Mahy -- The cremation of Sam McGee / Robert W. Service.
Subjects: American Horror tales, Children's fiction, Crime, Crime fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Fiction
