# At the Mountains of Madness

At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft has 39,980 words.

## At a glance

Novella by H. P. Lovecraft.

- **Author:** [H. P. Lovecraft](https://musael.com/books/authors/h-p-lovecraft.md) (1890–1937)
- **First published:** 1936
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** gothic fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 39,980
- **Reading time:** 2 h 40 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 4 h 18 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 3 h 20 min | 7 days |
| 250 wpm | 2 h 40 min | 6 days |
| 300 wpm | 2 h 13 min | 5 days |

## Read or listen

At the Mountains of Madness is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/h-p-lovecraft/at-the-mountains-of-madness
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70652
- LibriVox audiobook (4 h 13 min): https://librivox.org/at-the-mountains-of-madness-by-h-p-lovecraft/

## Counted from the text

Automated estimates from the selected Project Gutenberg text; it may include a preface or notes.

- Words in the text: 39,701
- Average sentence: 28.4 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/h-p-lovecraft/at-the-mountains-of-madness (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70652 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q786586
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_the_Mountains_of_Madness
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL29915159W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70652

Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition.

Source: https://musael.com/books/at-the-mountains-of-madness