How long does it take to read The Hounds of Hell?
Michel Parry, H. P. Lovecraft, Ambrose Bierce, Agatha Christie, Manly Wade Wellman, Catherine Crowe, Guy de Maupassant, Dorothy Henrietta Boulger, Fritz Leiber, Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, Ramsey Campbell, Dion Fortune, Turgenev Ivan
The Hounds of Hell by Michel Parry, H. P. Lovecraft, Ambrose Bierce, Agatha Christie, Manly Wade Wellman, Catherine Crowe, Guy de Maupassant, Dorothy Henrietta Boulger, Fritz Leiber, Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, Ramsey Campbell, Dion Fortune, Turgenev Ivan takes about 3 hours 31 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 31 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1974. 192 pages, about 52,800 words. Written for children.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 52 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 31 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 12 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The lonely moor, the hapless human being, the mournful blood-freezing howl that presages the approach of the dark beast, the great hound's appearance, black as sin, with eyes like hot coals and jaws slavering to close on the pulsing throat: as Michel Parry says, the scene strikes a primordial chord deep within our racial memory - as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle well knew, when he made this scene central to the ever-popular Hound of the Baskervilles. The perennial fascination of the terrible confrontation between hound and human is reflected in the sixteen excellent stories brought together here, stories of diverse dogs with but one thing in common: their bite is very much worse than their bark. There are dogs in this collection that are creatures of pure evil, and there are dogs which are the terrible instrument of vengeance. There are dogs, too, whose loyalty survives the centuries, notably in the collection's most chilling tale, by that master of the occult, H. P. Lovecraft. Not all the tales are terrifying. Saki (H. H. Munro), for instance, deploys a wickedly satirical humour, and there's an element of pure magic in Fritz Leiber's tale. Again Agatha Christie's contribution has a decidedly Science Fiction connotation. It all adds up to a splendidly varied collection.
Subjects: Fantasy fiction, Hounds, Fiction, Horror tales, Dogs, Children's stories
