How long does it take to read The Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural?
Bill Pronzini, Barry Malzberg, Stephen King, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Bram Stoker, Henry James, Winston S. Churchill, Theodore Dreiser, H. G. Wells, Ambrose Bierce, H. P. Lovecraft, Robert Bloch, Cornell Woolrich, William Faulkner, Theodore Sturgeon, Fritz Leiber, Truman Capote, Fredric Brown, Ed Mcbain, Karl Edward Wagner, Ray Russell, Robert Phillips, Thomas M. Disch, Henry Slesar, Adobe James, Robert Silverberg, John Lutz, Ramsey Campbell, Arthur Porges, Elizabeth Morton, Jack Dann, Theodore Cogswell, Cyril M. Kornbluth, Robert Scheckley, Barry N. Malzberg, Joyce Carol Oates, Charles L. Grant, Arthur L. Samuels, Edward D. Hoch, William F. Nolan
The Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural by Bill Pronzini, Barry Malzberg, Stephen King, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Bram Stoker, Henry James, Winston S. Churchill, Theodore Dreiser, H. G. Wells, Ambrose Bierce, H. P. Lovecraft, Robert Bloch, Cornell Woolrich, William Faulkner, Theodore Sturgeon, Fritz Leiber, Truman Capote, Fredric Brown, Ed Mcbain, Karl Edward Wagner, Ray Russell, Robert Phillips, Thomas M. Disch, Henry Slesar, Adobe James, Robert Silverberg, John Lutz, Ramsey Campbell, Arthur Porges, Elizabeth Morton, Jack Dann, Theodore Cogswell, Cyril M. Kornbluth, Robert Scheckley, Barry N. Malzberg, Joyce Carol Oates, Charles L. Grant, Arthur L. Samuels, Edward D. Hoch, William F. Nolan takes about 10 hours 59 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 59 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1981. 599 pages, about 164,725 words.
22 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 18 hours 18 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 59 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 52 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: tradition, change, death, short stories, allegory, nonlinear narrative
