How long does it take to read The Inhabitant of the Lake and Less Welcome Tenants?
The Inhabitant of the Lake and Less Welcome Tenants by Ramsey Campbell takes about 5 hours 36 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 36 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1964. 305 pages, about 83,875 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 19 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 36 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 30 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The late H. P. Lovecraft would have been fulsome in his praise of the work of this young disciple, who has made in these stories a distinct contribution to the Cthulhu Mythos. Choosing as his setting not the Arkham country of Massachusetts, but the Severn Valley in England, J. Ramsey Campbell has expanded the background of the Mythos, and brought into vivid being an entirely new setting to parallel that of Arkham-Dunwich-Innsmouth. "When I was ten years old I discovered H. P. Lovecraft," writes Campbell in his introduction to this volume, his first collection o£ tales, "and was profoundly excited and disturbed by his work." Now, only eight years later, he has made a significant contribution to Cthulhu lore, one many a more mature writer might well envy. Such tales as The Horror from the Bridge and The Insects from Shaggai have their origin in Lovecraft's Commonplace Book, while others, notably the title story and The Plain of Sound illustrate the imaginative powers of this newest recruit to the Cthulhu Mythos, whose stories "in their own modest way . . . reflect the greater wonder and horror of the masterpieces of H. P. Lovecraft." J. Ramsey Campbell's first volume augurs well for his future as a creative writer.
Subjects: Horror tales, English Fantasy fiction
