It takes the average reader and 26 minutes to read Dagon by Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
"Dagon" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft, written in July 1917, one of the first stories he wrote as an adult. It was first published in the November 1919 edition of The Vagrant (issue #11). After reading Lovecraft's juvenilia in 1917, W. Paul Cook, editor of the amateur press journal The Vagrant, encouraged Lovecraft to resume writing fiction. That summer, Lovecraft wrote two stories: "The Tomb" and "Dagon." The story was inspired in part by a dream he had. "I dreamed that whole hideous crawl, and can yet feel the ooze sucking me down!" he later wrote. Critic William Fulwiler indicates...
Dagon by Howard Phillips Lovecraft is 26 pages long, and a total of 6,656 words.
This makes it 9% the length of the average book. It also has 8% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes and 36 minutes to read Dagon aloud.
Dagon is suitable for students ages 8 and up.
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