How long does it take to read Shadows in the Attic?
Neil Wilson
Shadows in the Attic by Neil Wilson takes about 10 hours 9 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 9 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2000. 554 pages, about 152,350 words.
21 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 56 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 9 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 21 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Supernatural fiction was one of the most popular literary genres of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Most leading literary authors of their day, such as Dickens, Gaskell and Kipling, wrote in the genre. Many others, such as M. R. James, Arthur Machen, and Algernon Blackwood, are known almost purely for their supernatural writing. Shadows in the Attic provides a comprehensive portrait of a genre more diverse and far more influential than commonly supposed. Based on the world famous collections of the British Library, Neil Wilson has identified the two hundred top writers active in the supernatural genre during its golden age - from the end of the Gothic period to the birth of modern Hоrrоr. A concise biography of each author is followed by an informed and annotated bibliography of their supernatural stories and novels. Sources for further reading are also given. Shadows in the Attic is not only an authoritative guide, but a reliable and engrossing introduction to the whole of British supernatural fiction.
Subjects: Bibliography, English Ghost stories, English Horror tales, English fiction
