Book · by Alvin Schwartz · first published 1984
How many pages is In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories?
In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories by Alvin Schwartz has a median of 64 pages across 8 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 63 to 64 pages.
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Page count of every edition, by year
Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.
Editions counted
The 8 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 18 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Bound to Stay Bound Books | – | 64 | OL53345486M |
| 2017 | HarperCollins Publishers | – | 64 | OL28626201M |
| 2008 | HarperCollins | – | 63 | OL23119518M |
| 1993 | Mammoth | – | 64 | OL17470141M |
| 1991 | Scholastic Inc. | – | 63 | OL26334076M |
| 1989 | Heinemann | – | 63 | OL22779125M |
| 1984 | Harper & Row | – | 63 | OL3186653M |
| 1984 | Harper & Row | – | 64 | OL16234212M |
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Questions
- How many pages is In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories?
- About 64 pages: that is the median of 8 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 63 to 64 pages.
- How long does it take to read In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories?
- About 1 h 07 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 3 days.
- How many words is In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories?
- Roughly 17,000 words, estimated from the median page count at 275 words per page. Open Library does not record word counts, so this is an estimate.
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)).