How long does it take to read The Haunted Hotel?
A Mystery of Modern Venice
The Haunted Hotel by Wilkie Collins takes about 3 hours 30 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 30 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1878. 191 pages, about 52,525 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 50 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 30 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 11 minutes |
The page count is the median across 276 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This is perhaps Collins' last lucid effort before ill health and opium drained his powers. A tale of ghostly terror, relentless pace, tight narrative, and a doomed Countess characterize and distinguish this powerful Collins novelette.
Subjects: Fiction, English fiction, Hotels, Horror fiction, Haunted houses, Italy, fiction
