How long does it take to read The Living Dead?
John Joseph Adams, Dan Simmons, Kelly Link, Dale Bailey, Sherman Alexie, David J. Schow, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Michael Swanwick, Darrell Schweitzer, Jeffrey Ford, Susan Palwick, Clive Barker, David Tallerman, Joe Hill, Laurell K. Hamilton, Norman Partridge, Brian Evenson, Hannah Wolf Bowen, Stephen King, Douglas E. Winter, Lisa Morton, George R. R. Martin, Joe R. Lansdale, David Barr Kirtley, Nancy Kilpatrick, Neil Gaiman, Catherine Cheek, Adam-Troy Castro, Andy Duncan, Poppy Z. Brite, Will McIntosh, Harlan Ellison, Robert Silverberg, Nancy Holder, Scott Edelman, John Langan
The Living Dead by John Joseph Adams, Dan Simmons, Kelly Link, Dale Bailey, Sherman Alexie, David J. Schow, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Michael Swanwick, Darrell Schweitzer, Jeffrey Ford, Susan Palwick, Clive Barker, David Tallerman, Joe Hill, Laurell K. Hamilton, Norman Partridge, Brian Evenson, Hannah Wolf Bowen, Stephen King, Douglas E. Winter, Lisa Morton, George R. R. Martin, Joe R. Lansdale, David Barr Kirtley, Nancy Kilpatrick, Neil Gaiman, Catherine Cheek, Adam-Troy Castro, Andy Duncan, Poppy Z. Brite, Will McIntosh, Harlan Ellison, Robert Silverberg, Nancy Holder, Scott Edelman, John Langan takes about 8 hours 56 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 56 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2008. 487 pages, about 133,925 words.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 53 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 56 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 35 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: Zombies, Fiction, Horror tales, Horror stories, Horror fiction, Short stories
