# Red Nails

Red Nails by Robert E. Howard has 31,222 words.

## At a glance

1936 novella by Robert E. Howard.

- **Author:** [Robert E. Howard](https://musael.com/books/authors/robert-e-howard.md) (1906–1936)
- **First published:** 1936
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** fantasy
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 31,222
- **Reading time:** 2 h 5 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 3 h 21 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 2 h 36 min | 6 days |
| 250 wpm | 2 h 5 min | 5 days |
| 300 wpm | 1 h 44 min | 4 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32759
- LibriVox audiobook (3 h 24 min): https://librivox.org/red-nails-by-robert-e-howard/

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 31,222
- Dialogue: 30% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 14.1 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32759 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4134557
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Nails
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2848534W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32759

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/red-nails