How long does it take to read The Best Horror Stories?
Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, John Keir Cross, Edgar Allan Poe, Auguste comte de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Honoré de Balzac, Guy de Maupassant, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, Thomas Burke, Arthur Conan Doyle, Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski, A. E. Coppard, Dorothy L. Sayers, Cornell Woolrich, Geoffrey Household, Graham Greene, Cyril M. Kornbluth, John Collier, Robert Silverberg, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Roald Dahl, Stanley Ellin, Patricia Highsmith, Daphne du Maurier, David Fletcher
The Best Horror Stories by Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, John Keir Cross, Edgar Allan Poe, Auguste comte de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Honoré de Balzac, Guy de Maupassant, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, Thomas Burke, Arthur Conan Doyle, Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski, A. E. Coppard, Dorothy L. Sayers, Cornell Woolrich, Geoffrey Household, Graham Greene, Cyril M. Kornbluth, John Collier, Robert Silverberg, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Roald Dahl, Stanley Ellin, Patricia Highsmith, Daphne du Maurier, David Fletcher takes about 7 hours 18 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 18 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1990. 398 pages, about 109,450 words. Written for children.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 10 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 18 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 34 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Black Cat / Edgar Allan Poe -- Tell-tale Heart / Edgar Allan Poe -- Premature Burial / Edgar Allan Poe -- Torture of hope / Villiers de L'Isle Adam -- An episode of the terror / Honore de Balzac -- The hand / Guy de Maupassant -- The withered arm / Thomas Hardy -- The idiots / Joseph Conrad -- The bird / Thomas Burke -- Lot no. 249 / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- The sentence / J. Kaden-Bandrowski -- Arabesque, the mouse / A.E. Coppard -- Cinci / Luigi Pirandello -- Suspicion / Dorothy L. Sayers -- Dead on her feet / Cornell Woolrich -- Taboo / Geoffrey Household -- A little place off the Edgware Road / Graham Greene -- The words of guru / C.M. Kornbluth -- Yours truly, Jack the Ripper / Robert Bloch -- The veld / Ray Bradbury -- Evening primrose / John Collier -- Back from the grave / Robert Silverberg -- A rose for Emily / William Faulkner -- The comforts of home / Flannery O'Connor -- Pig / Roald Dahl -- Robert / Stanley Ellin -- The question / Stanley Ellin -- The terrapin / Patricia Highsmith -- Not after mindnight / Daphne du Maurier -- Corabella / David Fletcher.
Subjects: American Horror tales, Children's fiction, Crime, Crime fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Fiction
