How long does it take to read Tales of Horror and Mystery?
Roald Dahl, Walter De la Mare, W. W. Jacobs, Ruth Ainsworth, E. Nesbit, Edgar Allan Poe, Helen Cresswell, Gene Kemp, Herbert Russell Wakefield, Robert Arthur, Ambrose Bierce, Michael Joseph, Saki, Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, Joan Aiken, M. R. James, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, Bret Harte, Honoré de Balzac, Nicholas Fisk, Wilkie Collins, Isak Dinesen, Guy de Maupassant, Théophile Gautier
Tales of Horror and Mystery by Roald Dahl, Walter De la Mare, W. W. Jacobs, Ruth Ainsworth, E. Nesbit, Edgar Allan Poe, Helen Cresswell, Gene Kemp, Herbert Russell Wakefield, Robert Arthur, Ambrose Bierce, Michael Joseph, Saki, Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, Joan Aiken, M. R. James, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, Bret Harte, Honoré de Balzac, Nicholas Fisk, Wilkie Collins, Isak Dinesen, Guy de Maupassant, Théophile Gautier takes about 6 hours 55 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 55 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1993. 377 pages, about 103,675 words. Written for children.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 31 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 55 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 19 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
LANDLADY THE RIDDLE THE MONKEYS PAW THROUGH IXX)R MAN-SIZE IN MARBLE THE TELL-TALE HEART A KIND OF SWAN SONG THE CLXK TOWER GHOSr THE GORGE OF THE CHUREIS THE HAUNTED TRAILER THE STRANGER BAD COMPANY THE YELLOW CAT THE WELL LAURA THE SWAN CHILD THE BROWN HAND THE RED RCX)M THE BLADES LOST HEARTS THE SIGNALMAN THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY THE SILVER MIRROR THE STOLEN CIGAR-CASE THE MYSTERIOUS MANSION SWEETS FROM A STRANGER THE HITCH-HIKER THE DREAM WOMAN THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH THE SAILOR-BOYS TALE THE HORLA THE MUMMYS FOOT
Subjects: Short horror story, cyanide, Horror tales, Mystery, Juvenile fiction, Fiction
