How long does it take to read The Damnation Game?
The Damnation Game by Clive Barker takes about 6 hours 51 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 51 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1985. 374 pages, about 102,850 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 26 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 51 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 17 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
'It was an odd disease. Its symptoms were like infatuation–palpitations, sleeplessness. Its only certain cure, death...' Chance had ruled Marty Strauss' life for as long as he could remember. Now at last luck was turning his way. <br />Parolled from prison, he becomes bodyguard to Joseph Whitehead, one of the richest men in Europe. But Whitehead has also played with chance – an ancient game which gave him vast power and wealth, in exchange for his immortal soul. Now the forces he played against are back to claim what's theirs. Terrifying forces, with the power to raise the dead; and Marty is trapped between his human masters and Hell itself, with just one last, desperate game left to play...
Subjects: Periodicals, Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., Horror tales, Fiction, horror, Fiction, general
