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How long does it take to read The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales [15 stories]?

Edgar Allan Poe

The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales [15 stories] by Edgar Allan Poe takes about 7 hours 2 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 7 hours 2 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1960. 384 pages, about 105,600 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 11 hours 44 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 7 hours 2 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 4 hours 24 minutes

The page count is the median across 18 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Assignation Balloon-Hoax Black Cat Cask of Amontillado Descent into the Maelstrom Diddling Fall of the House of Usher Man That Was Used Up Masque of the Red Death Ms. Found in a Bottle Murders in the Rue Morgue Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym Pit and the Pendulum Purloined Letter Tell-tale Heart

Subjects: American Horror tales, Children's fiction, Crime, Crime fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Fiction

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