How long does it take to read The Dracula Book of Great Vampire Stories?
Leslie Shepard, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Bulwer, Guy de Maupassant, Jerome K. Jérôme, Bram Stoker, William Hope Hodgson, M. R. James, H. P. Lovecraft, L. P. Hartley, Algernon Blackwood, Shepherd, Leslie, ed. & intro, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Stanislaus Eric Count Stenbock, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, F. G. Loring, F. Marion Crawford, E. F. Benson, Jan Neruda, Victor Roman, Dr. Franz Hartmann, Leslie (edited) Shepard
The Dracula Book of Great Vampire Stories by Leslie Shepard, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Bulwer, Guy de Maupassant, Jerome K. Jérôme, Bram Stoker, William Hope Hodgson, M. R. James, H. P. Lovecraft, L. P. Hartley, Algernon Blackwood, Shepherd, Leslie, ed. & intro, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Stanislaus Eric Count Stenbock, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, F. G. Loring, F. Marion Crawford, E. F. Benson, Jan Neruda, Victor Roman, Dr. Franz Hartmann, Leslie (edited) Shepard takes about 5 hours 17 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 17 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1977. 288 pages, about 79,200 words. Written for children.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 48 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 17 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 18 minutes |
The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Dickens, C. Captain Murderer. -- Poe, E.A. Pit and the Pendulum Lytton, Lord. The haunted and the haunters, or The house and the brain. -- Maupassant, G. de. The inn. -- Jerome, J.K. The dancing partner. -- Caterpillars. -- Stoker, B. The judge's house. -- Hodgson, W.H. The voice in the night. -- James, M.R. Count Magnus. -- Lovecraft, H.P. The festival. -- Hartley, L.P. The travelling grave. -- Blackwood, A. The wendigo.
Subjects: Horror tales, Vampires, fiction, American fiction, American Horror tales, American Short stories, Children's fiction
