The Dunwich Horror

words removed
17,629
marks left
3,036
words a sentence
22.7
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: Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad. More twins

H. P. Lovecraft on the shelf

4 books by H. P. Lovecraft are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 4th closest of the 4 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for Robert E. Howard. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, H. P. Lovecraft's punctuation is closest to Solomon Northup's.

H. P. Lovecraft's average fingerprint

H. P. Lovecraft on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookH. P. Lovecraft's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons5.96.57.2
Commas55.956.976.6
Colons0.20.41.6
Exclamation marks1.40.62.8
Question marks0.90.73.7
Words per sentence22.726.917.0
Dialogue18%5%22%

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

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