How long does it take to read The Complete Idiot's Guide to Ghosts and Hauntings?
Tom Ogden
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Ghosts and Hauntings by Tom Ogden takes about 6 hours 56 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 56 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1999. 378 pages, about 103,950 words.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 33 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 56 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 20 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A Halloween favorite spooks up a new and expanded edition. A unique guide to the world of the paranormal, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Ghosts and Hauntings is a perennial favorite. Now updated, revised, and expanded with new information on ghost hunting and observing, this new edition includes new tips on gathering and recording paranormal data, and a new section devoted to "faking it"— showing readers how to haunt their own houses to amuse and bewilder friends.Expanded appendixes featuring new Internet sites devoted to the paranormal, as well as modern-day "haunted houses" open to the publicAdditional information on the origin of spiritualism and its followersStrong seller for Halloween seasonCompletely reorganized for easier reading and referencing
Subjects: Ghosts, Haunted places, New Age, Nonfiction, Horror tales, history and criticism, Literature, history and criticism
