# Carmilla

Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu has 28,192 words.

## At a glance

Novella by Sheridan Le Fanu.

- **Author:** [Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu](https://musael.com/books/authors/joseph-sheridan-le-fanu.md) (1814–1873)
- **First published:** 1872
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** gothic fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 28,192
- **Reading time:** 1 h 53 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 3 h 2 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 2 h 21 min | 5 days |
| 250 wpm | 1 h 53 min | 4 days |
| 300 wpm | 1 h 34 min | 4 days |

## Read or listen

Carmilla is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10007

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 28,192
- Dialogue: 39% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 19.2 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10007 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1043792
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmilla
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2895536W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10007

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/carmilla