How long does it take to read Tentacles Longer Than Night?
Tentacles Longer Than Night by Eugene Thacker takes about 4 hours 1 minute to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Horror of Philosophy
Previous: Starry Speculative Corpse
About 4 hours 1 minute
A weekend read
First published 2015. 219 pages, about 60,225 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 42 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 1 minute |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 31 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Our contemporary horror stories are written in a world where there seems little faith, lost hope, and no salvation. All that remains is the fragmentary and occasionally lyrical testimony of the human being struggling to confront its lack of reason for being in the vast cosmos. This is the terrain of the horror genre. Eugene Thacker explores this situation in Tentacles Longer Than Night. Extending the ideas presented in his book In The Dust of This Planet, Thacker considers the relationship between philosophy and the horror genre. But instead of taking fiction as the mere illustration of ideas, Thacker reads horror stories as if they themselves were works of philosophy, driven by a speculative urge to question human knowledge and the human-centric view of the world, ultimately leading to the limit of the human - thought undermining itself, in thought. Tentacles Longer Than Night is the third volume of the "horror of philosophy" trilogy, together with the first volume, In The Dust of This Planet, and the second volume, Starry Speculative Corpse.
Subjects: Literature, philosophy, Horror tales, history and criticism
