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At a glance
Novella by H. P. Lovecraft.
- Author
- H. P. Lovecraft1890–1937
- First published
- 1936
- Original language
- English
- Genre
- Gothic fiction
- Readers
- Adult
- Length
- Shortunder 40,000 words
- Readers' rating
- 3.7 out of 5from 381 ratings on Hardcover
How long it takes to read
About 2 h 40 min at 250 words a minute, or 4 h 18 min as an audiobook.
| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
|---|---|---|
| Careful200 words a minute | 3 h 20 min | 7 days |
| Average250 words a minute | 2 h 40 min | 6 days |
| Fast300 words a minute | 2 h 13 min | 5 days |
At the Mountains of Madness
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- Words in the text
- 39,701
- Average sentence
- 28.4 words
- Vocabulary
- 512 different words in every 1,000Distinct words in the sampled text; this does not measure writing quality.
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- hardcover.appreaders' rating
The word count is Standard Ebooks’ count of its edition; the figures under “Counted from the text” are Musael’s own count of the Project Gutenberg text.
Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition.
Questions
How many words is At the Mountains of Madness?
At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft has 39,980 words.
How long does it take to read At the Mountains of Madness?
About 2 h 40 min at 250 words a minute, or 4 h 18 min as an audiobook.
How many days to read At the Mountains of Madness at 30 minutes a day?
About 6 days at an average reading speed.
Who wrote At the Mountains of Madness?
At the Mountains of Madness was written by H. P. Lovecraft and first published in 1936.
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