So, I've recently had our game group express interest in EH as a game for when we get more players (Most likely 6). However this would be middle of the week, so we don't want to be finishing *too* late.

As such, I was wondering whether people had any recommendations for quicker games? Apart from 'Die quickly'. Are there any particular Ancient Ones that tend to play faster, or other ways to reduce the playtime (Preludes?). I've got everything, but haven't played enough to the game to know what is going to speed it up (or what should possibly be omitted due to slowing it down...)

I suppose Yig would be the fastest, but he's also brutal.
Prepare whatever you can in advance. Have people select their investigators and the Ancient One before the game night so you can find the starting possessions and prepare the Mythos deck.

Cool, thanks. Hard isn't necessarily a problem by itself. Might look at making Yig the first trial run then.

EH with 6 players is unpleasantly slow. I do not recommend it.