Tales of Terror

words removed
119,024
marks left
19,343
words a sentence
21.5
most used mark
,

Its punctuation fingerprint: each mark's share, on the same scale as every book on the shelf.

Its punctuation twin, the closest fingerprint on the shelf: Pragmatism, William James. More twins

Dick Donovan on the shelf

It's the only book by Dick Donovan on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Dick Donovan's punctuation is closest to Boethius's.

Boethius's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookEvery book's median
Semicolons5.67.2
Commas76.576.6
Colons1.41.6
Exclamation marks1.62.8
Question marks1.93.7
Words per sentence21.517.0
Dialogue25%22%

Every mark in reading order, left to right, top to bottom. Sentence endings are pink.

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