# Varney the Vampyre

Varney the Vampyre by Thomas Peckett Prest and James Malcolm Rymer has 661,163 words.

## At a glance

Penny blood serialization.

- **Author:** [Thomas Peckett Prest](https://musael.com/books/authors/thomas-peckett-prest.md), [James Malcolm Rymer](https://musael.com/books/authors/james-malcolm-rymer.md)
- **First published:** 1847
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** gothic fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 661,163
- **Reading time:** 44 h 5 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 71 h 6 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 55 h 6 min | 111 days |
| 250 wpm | 44 h 5 min | 89 days |
| 300 wpm | 36 h 44 min | 74 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14833

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 661,163
- Chapters: 232
- Dialogue: 53% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 18.7 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14833 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110239618
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19650958W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14833

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/varney-the-vampyre