It takes the average reader 3 hours and 37 minutes to read The Waking That Kills by Stephen Gregory
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Answering an ad for a job as live-in tutor to a teenage boy, Christopher Beal arrives at the big, old house deep in the woods with no idea what he's getting into. His pupil is Lawrence Lundy, an odd boy who practices strange rituals by moonlight and is haunted - perhaps literally - by the spirit of his dead father. For mysterious reasons, his mother, Juliet, keeps him at home, isolated from the world. During the suffocating heat of a long summer, Christopher finds himself entangled in the madness of this strange household and must uncover a deadly secret, before it's too late ... The Waking That Kills is a spellbinding novel of psychological horror by one of the genre's finest contemporary practitioners, Stephen Gregory, award-winning author of the modern classic The Cormorant. 'An insidious novel that gets under your skin and itches insatiably from within.' - Tor.com 'Gregory's voice and vision are wholly original.' - Ramsey Campbell
The Waking That Kills by Stephen Gregory is 214 pages long, and a total of 54,356 words.
This makes it 72% the length of the average book. It also has 66% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 57 minutes to read The Waking That Kills aloud.
The Waking That Kills is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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