# Kwaidan

Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn has 37,252 words.

## At a glance

English work of Japanese horror and entomology.

- **Author:** [Lafcadio Hearn](https://musael.com/books/authors/lafcadio-hearn.md) (1850–1904)
- **First published:** 1904
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** gothic fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 37,252
- **Reading time:** 2 h 29 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 4 h (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 3 h 6 min | 7 days |
| 250 wpm | 2 h 29 min | 5 days |
| 300 wpm | 2 h 4 min | 5 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1210

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 37,252
- Dialogue: 26% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 21.5 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1210 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2345085
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwaidan%3A_Stories_and_Studies_of_Strange_Things
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL859613W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1210

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

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