Book · Fantasy and science fiction
The Witching Hour
by Anne Rice
Page count, estimated reading time and reading quiz: everything to know before you start The Witching Hour, and the Vread challenge to get to the end.
- Pages
- 1,642
- Reading time
- ≈ 29 h 50 min
- Checkpoints
- 46
- Genre
- Fantasy, SF
Free on iPhone and Android.
How long does it take to read The Witching Hour?
At 1,642 pages, The Witching Hour is a doorstopper. Expect about 29 hours 50 minutes of reading to finish it, based on 250 words per page and an average reading speed of 230 words per minute. A fast reader will go quicker; a careful read (or reading in a second language) will take longer.
At 30 minutes a day, that is about 60 days of reading. At the median pace of Vread readers, 72 pages per reading day, it takes 23 reading days. For a book of this length (600 pages or more), Vread readers who finish it take a median of 6.4 days between the first and the last checkpoint (Vread Reading Barometer 2026).
- 30 minutes a day60 days
- Vread median pace (72 pp./day)23 days
Estimates; see the method at the bottom of the page.
Prove you read it
The Vread challenge: 46 checkpoints
- Checkpoint 1, page 36
- Checkpoint 2, page 71
- Checkpoint 3, page 107
- Checkpoint 4, page 143
- Checkpoint 5, page 178
- Checkpoint 6, page 214
- Checkpoint 7, page 250
- Checkpoint 8, page 286
- Checkpoint 9, page 321
- Checkpoint 10, page 357
- Checkpoint 11, page 393
- Checkpoint 12, page 428
- Checkpoint 13, page 464
- Checkpoint 14, page 500
- Checkpoint 15, page 535
- Checkpoint 16, page 571
- Checkpoint 17, page 607
- Checkpoint 18, page 643
- Checkpoint 19, page 678
- Checkpoint 20, page 714
- Checkpoint 21, page 750
- Checkpoint 22, page 785
- Checkpoint 23, page 821
- Checkpoint 24, page 857
- Checkpoint 25, page 892
- Checkpoint 26, page 928
- Checkpoint 27, page 964
- Checkpoint 28, page 999
- Checkpoint 29, page 1035
- Checkpoint 30, page 1071
- Checkpoint 31, page 1107
- Checkpoint 32, page 1142
- Checkpoint 33, page 1178
- Checkpoint 34, page 1214
- Checkpoint 35, page 1249
- Checkpoint 36, page 1285
- Checkpoint 37, page 1321
- Checkpoint 38, page 1356
- Checkpoint 39, page 1392
- Checkpoint 40, page 1428
- Checkpoint 41, page 1464
- Checkpoint 42, page 1499
- Checkpoint 43, page 1535
- Checkpoint 44, page 1571
- Checkpoint 45, page 1606
- Checkpoint 46, page 1642
In Vread, The Witching Hour is split into 46 checkpoints, one every 36 pages or so. At each checkpoint, a question covers the passage you have just read: a correct answer validates the step, and your progress moves forward like a training plan.
The challenge: validate all 46 checkpoints through to the last page. No giant quiz at the end, no summary to copy out: short questions along the way that prove the book was actually read. It also works as a reading quiz to check your understanding before a test.
Also available in French on Vread.
Illustrative example
What a checkpoint looks like
A short, precise question about the pages you have just read: a character, a place, a choice.
The answer is in the text: reply in the app.
This is not a question from The Witching Hour: to avoid spoilers, the real questions stay in the app.
Answer in the app, one checkpoint at a time.
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