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Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected is 471 pages, about 8 hours 38 minutes at 250 words a minute.

How long Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected takes to read

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The 36-Hour Day Nancy L. Mace, Peter V. Rabins 7.1 h
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The Penguin Book of Horror Stories J. A. Cuddon, Anonymous, James Hogg, Prosper Mérimée, Edgar Allan Poe, Honoré de Balzac, Henry James, Guy de Maupassant, Robert Louis Stevenson, Émile Zola, Ambrose Bierce, M. R. James, H. G. Wells, William Hope Hodgson, Perceval Landon, John Russell, Franz Kafka, Alfred McLelland Burrage, E. F. Benson, Augustus Muir, John Metcalfe, William Fryer Harvey, William Faulkner, D. K. Broster, Lord Dunsany, Evelyn Waugh, Geoffrey Household, L. P. Hartley, Gerald Kersh, Carl Stephenson, Yvor Winters, Monica Dickens, Robert Graves, Ray Bradbury, Muriel Spark, John Lennon, Dawn Muscillo, Dorothy K. Haynes, Patricia Highsmith, Roald Dahl, Will F. Jenkins, J. N. Allan, Vilas Sarang 11.1 h
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Web of Dreams V. C. Andrews 8.1 h
The Pyramid Henning Mankell 7.3 h
The Lottery Shirley Jackson 35 min
Patient Zero Jonathan Maberry 7.7 h
Her Body and Other Parties Carmen Maria Machado 4.8 h
The Lottery, or The Adventures of James Harris Shirley Jackson 5.6 h

How long each takes

Everything's Eventual Stephen King 9.4 h

The 36-Hour Day Nancy L. Mace, Peter V. Rabins 7.1 h Great Short Tales of Mystery and Terror Editors of Readers Digest, Arthur Conan Doyle, C. S. Forester, Shirley Jackson, Edgar Allan Poe, Agatha Christie, Evelyn Waugh, Guy de Maupassant, John Russell, Algernon Blackwood, John Collier, G. K. Chesterton, Truman Capote, Alfred Noyes, M. R. James, Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, Leslie Charteris, Lord Dunsany, Ellery Queen, Ambrose Bierce, Daphne du Maurier, Thomas Burke, Robert Barr, John Dickson Carr, André Maurois, Richard Middleton, H. P. Lovecraft, Cornell Woolrich, Gilbert Highet, Alfred McLelland Burrage, Ian Fleming, Gertrude Atherton, Carl Stephenson, W. W. Jacobs, George Hitchcock, William Hope Hodgson, Ross Macdonald, Rudyard Kipling, Georges Simenon, Robert Bloch, Stanley Ellin, H. G. Wells, Erle Stanley Gardner, Saki, Arthur C. Clarke 11.7 h

The Penguin Book of Horror Stories J. A. Cuddon, Anonymous, James Hogg, Prosper Mérimée, Edgar Allan Poe, Honoré de Balzac, Henry James, Guy de Maupassant, Robert Louis Stevenson, Émile Zola, Ambrose Bierce, M. R. James, H. G. Wells, William Hope Hodgson, Perceval Landon, John Russell, Franz Kafka, Alfred McLelland Burrage, E. F. Benson, Augustus Muir, John Metcalfe, William Fryer Harvey, William Faulkner, D. K. Broster, Lord Dunsany, Evelyn Waugh, Geoffrey Household, L. P. Hartley, Gerald Kersh, Carl Stephenson, Yvor Winters, Monica Dickens, Robert Graves, Ray Bradbury, Muriel Spark, John Lennon, Dawn Muscillo, Dorothy K. Haynes, Patricia Highsmith, Roald Dahl, Will F. Jenkins, J. N. Allan, Vilas Sarang 11.1 h

The Outsider Stephen King 10.6 h

Wastelands--Stories of the Apocalypse John Joseph Adams, Stephen King, Orson Scott Card, Paolo Bacigalupi, M. Rickert, Jonathan Lethem, George R. R. Martin, Tobias S. Buckell, Cory Doctorow, James Van Pelt, Richard Kadrey, Catherine Wells, Jerry Oltion, Gene Wolfe, Nancy Kress, Octavia E. Butler, Carol Emshwiller, Neal Barrett Jr., Dale Bailey, David Grigg, John Langan 6.3 h

Web of Dreams V. C. Andrews 8.1 h

The Pyramid Henning Mankell 7.3 h

The Lottery Shirley Jackson 35 min

Patient Zero Jonathan Maberry 7.7 h

Her Body and Other Parties Carmen Maria Machado 4.8 h

The Lottery, or The Adventures of James Harris Shirley Jackson 5.6 h

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