# The Castle of Otranto

The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole has 36,798 words.

## At a glance

Novel by Horace Walpole.

- **Author:** [Horace Walpole](https://musael.com/books/authors/horace-walpole.md) (1717–1797)
- **First published:** 1764
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** gothic fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 36,798
- **Reading time:** 2 h 27 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 3 h 57 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 3 h 4 min | 7 days |
| 250 wpm | 2 h 27 min | 5 days |
| 300 wpm | 2 h 3 min | 5 days |

## Read or listen

The Castle of Otranto is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/horace-walpole/the-castle-of-otranto
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/696

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 36,829
- Chapters: 5
- Dialogue: 52% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 16.7 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/horace-walpole/the-castle-of-otranto (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/696 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q548576
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Castle_of_Otranto
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL183675W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/696

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-castle-of-otranto