We Have Always Lived in the Castle: Audiobook
The We Have Always Lived in the Castle audiobook runs an estimated 5.5 hours (about 3.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrumentWhen will you finish it?
Based on 5.5 hours of listening (estimated).
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 11 days |
| 1 hour / day | 6 days |
| 2 hours / day | 3 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 4 days |
You'll finish in–by –
What our data says
- At 5.5 hours (estimated), it's shorter than 77% of the mystery audiobooks we measured.
- That's 36% shorter than the average mystery audiobook (8.6 hrs across 582 titles in our dataset).
Computed from mystery audiobooks in The Books Insider dataset (build ); listening time estimated from page count. Methodology.
Who is this for?
Best for mystery listeners who want psychological twists and a murder to untangle: a weekend-size listen at 5.5 hours (estimated).
About the book
Shirley Jackson’s deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family takes readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, macabre humor, and gothic atmosphere. Six years after four family members died suspiciously of arsenic poisoning, the three remaining Blackwoods—elder, agoraphobic sister Constance; wheelchair-bound Uncle Julian; and eighteen-year-old Mary Katherine, or, Merricat—live together in pleasant isolation. Merricat has developed an idiosyncratic system of rules and protective magic to guard the estate against intrusions from hostile villagers. But one day a stranger arrives—cousin Charles, with his eye on the Blackwood fortune—and manages to penetrate into their carefully shielded lives. Unable to drive him away by either polite or occult means, Merricat adopts more desperate methods, resulting in crisis, tragedy, and the revelation of a terrible secret.
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the We Have Always Lived in the Castle audiobook?
We Have Always Lived in the Castle runs about 5.5 hours, our estimate from its 187 pages at a typical narration pace. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 3.7 hours.
Is the We Have Always Lived in the Castle audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
When was We Have Always Lived in the Castle first published?
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson, Bernadette Dunne was first published in 1962.
