How long does it take to read The Haunted House?
The Haunted House by Charles Dickens, Mrs. Gaskell takes about 56 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 56 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1859. 51 pages, about 14,025 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 34 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 56 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 35 minutes |
The page count is the median across 261 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The drama begins with a Yuletide gathering in an eerie country retreat that's rumored to be haunted. There, Dickens and his friends, including acclaimed authors Elizabeth Gaskell and Wilkie Collins, take on the task of finding evidence of a supernatural presence in the house. When they reconvene at a Twelfth Night feast to review their findings, what will their stories reveal?
Subjects: Haunted houses, Fiction, Ghost stories
