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Recorded Ancient Greek myths described what monstrous being who possessed snakes for hair and could turn people to stone if they looked into her eyes?
Pyrenees
Medusa
Algera
Charon
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One of the first major vampire stories was what tale written by Joseph Sheridan la Fanu about a parasitic noblewoman who attached herself to families in order to feed on them?
Carmilla
Avigna
Rachael
Kairin
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Bram Stoker wrote what seminal vampire novel?
The Lost Boys
Strangers
Dracula
Forty Days of Night
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In Victor Hugo's Gothic novel, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, what name was given to the titular antihero who raged against the world to save the woman he was infatuated with?
Balthazar
Catoblepas
Frankenstein
Quasimodo
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Stephen King wrote what famous story about a haunted hotel that drove the family taking care of it insane?
The Shining
Carrie
It
Graveyard Shift
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H. G. Wells wrote what famous story about alien invaders who attacked the Earth?
Independence Day
Childhood's End
Starless
The War of the Worlds
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Robert Louis Stevenson wrote a story where the scientist Doctor Jekyll transformed into what villainous persona who enacted evil?
Mr. Pryde
Mr. Tryde
Mr. Slyde
Mr. Hyde
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Though not outwardly a horror story, Moby Dick turned rather horrendous when what type of animal turned the tables on the main characters by hunting and killing them?
A shark
A whale
A squid
A giant lobster
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William Peter Blatty wrote what classic horror story about two priests who fought to save a possessed girl?
The Exorcist
Rites
The Power of Christ Compels You
Immaculate
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Christopher Marlowe wrote what play adapting German folk tales about a scholar who made deals with a devil to gain enlightenment?
Dr. Faustus
Mr. Hemm
Dr. Stern
Dr. Fate
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What Greek myth told the existentially harrowing tale of an inescapable prophecy where a child was doomed to kill his father and wed his mother?
Bellerophon
Heracles
Oedipus Rex
Theseus and Ariadne
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Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness introduced readers to what monstrous villain who exploited the people of Africa into thinking he was a god so he could "exterminate all brutes"?
Keller
Sorkin
Kurtz
Tomar
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Richard Marsh wrote the story The Beetle about a shape-shifting creature that came from what country in order to stalk Londoners?
Australia
China
Egypt
The U.S.A.
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Wuthering Heights combined tropes of Victorian ghost stories and suspenseful romances. What author wrote this text?
Emily Bronte
Jane Austen
Virginia Woolf
Angela Fortner
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Charlotte Bronte, sister of Emily, wrote what other gothic romance in which a governess falls in love with her employer only to be tormented by visions of a deranged woman?
Moorehead
Daniel Deronda
Anne of Green Gables
Jane Eyre
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What New England author became one of America's first masters of horror thanks to his short stories like "The Masque of the Red Death" and "A Cask of Amontillado"?
Edgar Allan Poe
H. P. Lovecraft
Robert W. Chambers
Stephen King
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One of Edgar Allen Poe's most famous poems involved what kind of bird tormenting a man and saying the word "Nevermore"?
A magpie
A bluebird
A raven
A crow
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Poe's short story "The Pit and the Pendulum" was set during what historical period when torture was common?
The Spanish Inquisition
The Reconquista
The Mexican Revolution
The Sacking of Rome
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What Horace Walpole story about a haunted castle is argued to have started the Gothic subgenre of literature?
The Castle of Otranto
Blue Beard
A Dark and Stormy Night
The Haunting of Redcliffe Castle
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Robert E. Howard formulated what character who was a Puritan on a quest to slay all supernatural horrors remaining in the world?
Alfred Wolfsbane
Graham Van Helsing
Vampire Hunter D
Solomon Kane
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Ira Levin concocted what 1960s horror novel about a woman who was impregnated with the devil's child?
Spawn
Rosemary's Baby
The Omen
The Rite
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What author wrote The Turn of the Screw about a governess who is haunted while she cares for two children in their ancestral manor?
T. S. Eliot
Henry James
Lloyd Coughlin
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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What Matthew Gregory Lewis gothic horror story followed the downfall of a pious clergyman named Ambrosio who gave up his humanity in the pursuit of his lust?
The Monk
Burning
Paradise Lost
The Inferno
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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley was originally published with what iconic subtitle?
The Modern Prometheus
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Grave
A Tale of Man's Future
What Rest Beyond the Pale
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What sullen New Englander invented cosmic horror with short stories like "Dagon," "The Dunwich Horror," and "The Shadow over Innsmouth"?
Robert Sherwood
Dominic Tuttle
H. P. Lovecraft
Oscar Foster
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H. P. Lovecraft is perhaps best known for inventing what monstrous squid-like deity who visited people's dreams to foretell his monstrous return?
Aragon
Cthulhu
Vornagar
Ghidorah
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In a similar manner to H. P. Lovecraft, the author Robert W. Chambers also wrote about cosmic entities coming into contact with mankind. What famous book did he write containing the entity of Hastur who drives artists throughout the world insane with his corrupting influence?
The King in Yellow
Visit Me at Night
Walk in My Flesh
The Horror of the Hours
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Gaston LeRoux wrote what horror novel about an obsessive stalker who tries to win the love of a singer by attacking her competitors?
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Phantom of the Opera
Les Misérables
The Great Gatsby
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Shirley Jackson wrote what famous tale about a team of people staying in a haunted house as part of a science experiment?
Drag Me to Hell
Shudder Island
The Calling
The Haunting of Hill House
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Thomas Harris wrote Red Dragon and The Silence of the Lambs which both featured what monstrous serial killer?
The Calendar Killer
Zoma
Sideshow Bob
Hannibal Lecter
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