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Author · born 25 April 1927 · died 14 March 1992

Alvin Schwartz books: page counts

4 books by Alvin Schwartz with enough editions on Open Library to give a reliable page count.

Books
4
with page data
Longest
115
Scary Stories 3
Shortest
64
In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Sto

Pages per book

Median page count, in order of first publication.

In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories (…63More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (1984)105Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (1990)111Scary Stories 3 (1991)115
In a Dark, Dark Room…63More Scary Stories t…105Scary Stories to Tel…111Scary Stories 3 (199…115
Open Library edition records.

Every book

BookFirst publishedMedian pagesRangeReading time
In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories19846463–641 h 07 min
More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark198410699–1111 h 52 min
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark1990111111–2081 h 57 min
Scary Stories 31991115109–1282 h 02 min

Reading all 4 takes about 6 h 58 min at average speed (395 pages).

Data: Open Library monthly data dumps (works, editions, authors, reading log, ratings) (Open Library / Internet Archive); How many words do we read per minute? A review and meta-analysis of reading rate (Marc Brysbaert, Journal of Memory and Language 109 (2019)).