How long does it take to read The Fall of the House of Usher?
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe takes about 42 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 42 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1704. 38 pages, about 10,450 words.
2 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 1 hour 10 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 42 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 26 minutes |
The page count is the median across 237 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"The Fall of the House of Usher" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1839 in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, then included in the collection Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque in 1840. The short story, a work of Gothic fiction, includes themes of madness, family, isolation, and metaphysical identities.
Subjects: short stories (single author), American Horror tales, burial vaults, catalepsy, dragons, Fiction
