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P E A R L
This is a stylometric collation of the Vampire Library: 116 texts, each measured for three statistics computed from its full text, alongside a second set of tables covering file size, estimated reading time, and a direct plaintext download link per text.
SMOG estimates the US school grade level needed to read a text on a first pass, based on sentence length and the proportion of long (3+ syllable) words. Yule’s K measures vocabulary repetitiveness: a lower K means a richer, more varied vocabulary, while a higher K means the author reuses the same words more often. Hapax % is the share of words in the text that appear exactly once (a hapax legomenon), another marker of vocabulary richness.
These figures were computed with three independently-maintained Python libraries, not hand-rolled formulas: textstat for the SMOG index, LexicalRichness for Yule’s K, and NLTK for the hapax legomena count.
The File Data tables give each text's plaintext file size and an estimated reading time (word count ÷ 200 words per minute, a standard average adult reading speed), plus a direct download link to the plaintext file itself.
Entries are sorted alphabetically by title, ignoring leading articles (A, An, The). A handful of texts are excluded from this collation: near-duplicate files not linked anywhere on the live site, and non-literary material (a fandom code) that would skew the statistics without meaning anything comparable to the rest of the corpus.
| Title | Year | Words | SMOG | Yule | Hapax |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Animistic Vampire in New England | 1896 | 4,511 | 15.3 | 151.9 | 23.2 |
| Another Dracula | 1930 | 19,252 | 9.1 | 86.6 | 10.0 |
| An Argument | 1819 | 1,451 | 10.9 | 76.2 | 28.2 |
| An Authenticated Vampire Story | 1909 | 2,051 | 12.2 | 131.9 | 22.2 |
| Aylmer Vance and the Vampire | 1914 | 7,900 | 10.6 | 88.6 | 14.2 |
| Bat's Belfry | 1926 | 3,262 | 10.4 | 106.1 | 20.1 |
| Belief in Vampires | 1899 | 2,128 | 11.8 | 130.4 | 26.5 |
| Believe in Vampiress | 1896 | 2,716 | 11.3 | 116.9 | 22.2 |
| The Black Vampyre | 1819 | 8,345 | 13.6 | 107.6 | 24.0 |
| The Blood of the Vampire | 1897 | 87,803 | 9.6 | 80.5 | 5.1 |
| A Blood-Sucking Ghost | 1892 | 392 | 12.3 | 186.2 | 42.1 |
| The Canal | 1927 | 8,371 | 8.5 | 120.0 | 14.0 |
| Carmilla | 1872 | 27,975 | 10.6 | 93.6 | 8.0 |
| Clarimonde | 1836 | 13,203 | 11.7 | 103.9 | 14.2 |
| The Coffin Lid | 1873 | 620 | 6.9 | 160.4 | 27.9 |
| Cross of Fire | 1939 | 3,201 | 7.0 | 96.8 | 15.6 |
| Daughter of the Moonlight | 1930 | 12,331 | 10.1 | 81.4 | 16.5 |
| The Dog and the Corpse | 1873 | 421 | 7.7 | 132.2 | 34.9 |
| Doom of the House of Duryea | 1936 | 5,292 | 9.1 | 91.9 | 18.9 |
| Dracula | 1897 | 160,466 | 8.8 | 90.8 | 3.3 |
| Dracula's Guest | 1914 | 4,878 | 9.2 | 117.9 | 17.1 |
| A Dream | 1894 | 550 | 8.2 | 130.2 | 34.7 |
| European Folk-Lore in the United States | 1889 | 1,530 | 11.1 | 157.9 | 22.6 |
| Excerpts on Bulgarian Vampire Folklore Belief | 1877 | 2,587 | 14.7 | 133.0 | 27.4 |
| The Fan | 1925 | 1,775 | 8.0 | 107.3 | 24.0 |
| Title | Year | Words | SMOG | Yule | Hapax |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Flowering of the Strange Orchid | 1894 | 2,965 | 9.3 | 94.9 | 19.4 |
| For the Blood is the Life | 1912 | 6,681 | 9.4 | 119.2 | 12.2 |
| Four Wooden Stakes | 1925 | 4,314 | 9.3 | 112.1 | 20.1 |
| Good Lady Ducayne | 1896 | 9,984 | 9.7 | 80.0 | 13.6 |
| Haunted by a Vampire | 1897 | 615 | 10.8 | 108.4 | 38.0 |
| The Hills of the Dead | 1930 | 7,352 | 7.7 | 99.2 | 14.2 |
| The Horla | 1886 | 9,861 | 10.3 | 96.5 | 12.1 |
| A Horrible Superstition | 1872 | 331 | 11.4 | 205.7 | 34.7 |
| The House of the Vampire | 1907 | 27,005 | 9.8 | 92.1 | 10.4 |
| An Irish Vampire | 1925 | 1,664 | 10.8 | 123.3 | 27.5 |
| Isle of the Undead | 1936 | 9,868 | 8.4 | 108.5 | 14.7 |
| Lang on the Vampire | 1904 | 1,191 | 11.9 | 117.4 | 31.5 |
| The Last of the Vampires | 1893 | 2,830 | 10.3 | 151.4 | 19.1 |
| The Legend of the Vampire | 1916 | 246 | 12.7 | 171.2 | 47.6 |
| Let Loose | 1890 | 7,153 | 10.1 | 123.4 | 13.5 |
| Ligeia | 1838 | 6,168 | 12.8 | 154.5 | 18.1 |
| A Living Vampire | 1910 | 1,146 | 10.6 | 102.8 | 23.3 |
| Living Vampyres | 1851 | 1,361 | 12.1 | 123.0 | 26.5 |
| Luella Miller | 1903 | 6,043 | 8.8 | 113.0 | 10.3 |
| The Man Who Cast No Shadow | 1927 | 7,109 | 9.9 | 81.6 | 18.3 |
| The man with Wax Hands | 1880 | 4,038 | 8.6 | 103.9 | 19.2 |
| A Modern Vampyre | 1850 | 2,388 | 13.8 | 112.3 | 25.0 |
| Mrs Amworth | 1922 | 5,956 | 10.0 | 96.0 | 17.5 |
| The Mysterious Stranger | 1860 | 15,393 | 10.4 | 100.1 | 9.3 |
| Negotium Perambulans | 1922 | 6,143 | 10.1 | 116.5 | 16.4 |
| The Ocean Leech | 1925 | 3,920 | 9.0 | 125.4 | 20.2 |
| Title | Year | Words | SMOG | Yule | Hapax |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Transfer | 1912 | 4,287 | 10.3 | 90.4 | 19.1 |
| A Triad of Mediaeval Myths: Vampires | 1870 | 4,343 | 13.4 | 92.6 | 22.9 |
| The True Story of a Vampire | 1894 | 3,156 | 10.1 | 84.6 | 19.2 |
| The Two Corpses | 1873 | 286 | 6.0 | 109.0 | 43.4 |
| The Unholy Compact Abjured | 1825 | 1,525 | 11.0 | 113.0 | 28.3 |
| The Vampire | 1914 | 3,404 | 10.6 | 120.1 | 21.7 |
| A Vampire | 1884 | 4,629 | 10.2 | 90.0 | 19.2 |
| The Vampire | 1914 | 4,595 | 14.5 | 148.0 | 22.7 |
| Vampire And Bruxa | 1874 | 1,128 | 13.7 | 132.4 | 29.9 |
| Vampire in Literature | 1913 | 696 | 9.7 | 126.3 | 41.7 |
| A Vampire Legend | 1908 | 3,377 | 15.3 | 123.2 | 21.6 |
| The Vampire Legend Its Origin And Nature | 1918 | 3,893 | 15.3 | 175.8 | 22.2 |
| The Vampire Maid | 1900 | 2,480 | 11.2 | 99.3 | 24.4 |
| The Vampire Myth | 1902 | 1,860 | 13.5 | 149.0 | 25.2 |
| The Vampire of Croglin Grange | 1896 | 1,548 | 11.2 | 150.6 | 21.4 |
| Vampire of Lakeview | 1888 | 2,720 | 9.6 | 115.7 | 25.6 |
| Vampire of Slav Origin | 1916 | 528 | 12.8 | 151.2 | 42.0 |
| The Vampire Pipe | 1907 | 547 | 9.6 | 196.7 | 37.8 |
| Vampire Stories | 1914 | 2,232 | 11.1 | 143.9 | 26.9 |
| The Vampire Superstition | 1915 | 1,529 | 10.5 | 119.4 | 30.8 |
| The Vampire Superstition | 1915 | 2,691 | 13.5 | 161.7 | 22.1 |
| The Vampire, His Kith and Kin | 1928 | 146,528 | 12.5 | 95.2 | 8.4 |
| Vampires | 1914 | 2,753 | 12.1 | 132.9 | 24.0 |
| Vampires | 1908 | 1,183 | 13.8 | 122.0 | 28.7 |
| Vampires | 1914 | 2,186 | 13.9 | 138.0 | 24.5 |
| Vampires and Ghouls | 1914 | 1,627 | 12.0 | 153.3 | 28.7 |
| Title | Year | Words | SMOG | Yule | Hapax |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vampires and Ghouls | 1871 | 3,036 | 12.6 | 147.2 | 23.9 |
| Vampires and Vamping | 1914 | 279 | 9.1 | 96.6 | 45.5 |
| Vampires and Vampirism | 1914 | 31,784 | 12.2 | 138.8 | 9.5 |
| Vampirism in Rhode Island | 1937 | 1,102 | 11.2 | 132.3 | 31.1 |
| Vampirism in Servia | 1876 | 1,520 | 10.3 | 118.5 | 31.4 |
| The Vampyre | 1819 | 8,132 | 14.2 | 115.7 | 15.6 |
| The Vampyre, a Hungarian Legend | 1819 | 366 | 13.1 | 156.3 | 36.6 |
| Vampyres | 1854 | 4,244 | 13.4 | 151.4 | 21.2 |
| Vampyres their crimes and punishments | 1844 | 2,119 | 14.5 | 153.3 | 29.3 |
| Vampyrism | 1851 | 6,613 | 12.5 | 132.0 | 18.7 |
| Vampyrism | 1851 | 3,798 | 12.7 | 123.0 | 19.7 |
| Vanquishing A Vampire | 1928 | 1,701 | 13.7 | 105.2 | 24.2 |
| Wake not the Dead | 1823 | 10,748 | 13.3 | 95.3 | 13.5 |
| The White Vampire | 1928 | 4,592 | 10.0 | 105.8 | 24.2 |
| The Wolf Woman | 1927 | 5,486 | 8.9 | 108.0 | 16.2 |
| Title | Size | Reading Time | Plaintext |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vampires and Ghouls | 17.2 KB | 15 min | Download |
| Vampires and Vamping | 1.6 KB | 1 min | Download |
| Vampires and Vampirism | 176.3 KB | 2.6 hr | Download |
| Vampirism in Rhode Island | 6.2 KB | 6 min | Download |
| Vampirism in Servia | 8.2 KB | 8 min | Download |
| The Vampyre | 45.9 KB | 41 min | Download |
| The Vampyre, a Hungarian Legend | 2.2 KB | 2 min | Download |
| Vampyres | 24.1 KB | 21 min | Download |
| Vampyres their crimes and punishments | 12.7 KB | 11 min | Download |
| Vampyrism | 37.6 KB | 33 min | Download |
| Vampyrism | 21.4 KB | 19 min | Download |
| Vanquishing A Vampire | 9.4 KB | 9 min | Download |
| Wake not the Dead | 61.7 KB | 54 min | Download |
| The White Vampire | 26.0 KB | 23 min | Download |
| The Wolf Woman | 31.3 KB | 27 min | Download |
The highest and lowest values across the collation, for whoever wants the extremes without reading every row.
| Category | Title | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Highest SMOG (hardest to read) | The Vampire Legend Its Origin And Nature | 15.3 |
| Lowest SMOG (easiest to read) | The Two Corpses | 6.0 |
| Highest Yule’s K (most repetitive vocabulary) | A Horrible Superstition | 205.7 |
| Lowest Yule’s K (richest vocabulary) | Return of the Undead | 75.7 |
| Highest Hapax (most one-off words) | They Burned the Vampire | 53.0 |
| Lowest Hapax (most repeated vocabulary) | Dracula | 3.3 |
| Most words | Dracula | 160,466 |
| Fewest words | They Burned the Vampire | 234 |
| Largest file | The Vampire, His Kith and Kin | 840.4 KB |
| Smallest file | The Legend of the Vampire | 1.4 KB |
