Wizards & Witches
This young wizard tracks down Voldemort's Horcruxes and loves a good Hogwarts Halloween feast.
Who is: Harry Potter
This friendly ghost lives in Whipstaff Manor and prefers making friends over scaring people.
Who is: Casper
This 19th-century vampire sleeps in a coffin, avoids garlic, and lives in a dark castle in Transylvania.
Who is: Count Dracula
This schoolmaster is chased out of Sleepy Hollow by a terrifying, headless horseman.
Who is: Ichabod Crane
This cheerful, giant green ogre started out as a character in a 1990 children's picture book by William Steig before becoming a movie star.
Who is: Shrek
In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, this chilly villainess casts a spell so that it is "always winter, but never Christmas."
Who is: The White Witch (or Jadis)
In Neil Gaiman's Coraline, the heroine discovers a creepy, mirrored version of her own home behind this structural feature.
What is: a hidden/locked door
Written by Mary Shelley, this gothic novel features a scientist who stitches together body parts to create a living creature.
What is: Frankenstein
Three sisters chant "Double, double, toil and trouble" around a cauldron in this famous Shakespeare play.
What is: Macbeth
In this book-turned-movie, a young boy named Max puts on a wolf suit, sails to an island, and becomes king of the monsters.
What is: Where the Wild Things Are
In Roald Dahl's book The Witches, the Grand High Witch plots to turn all the children of England into this specific creature.
What are: mice
This boy, nicknamed "Bod," is raised by ghosts in a cemetery after his family is killed in a Neil Gaiman novel.
Who is: Nobody Owens from The Graveyard Book
This famous RL Stine Goosebumps book features a ventriloquist doll named Slappy who comes to life.
What is: Night of the Living Dummy
This Edgar Allan Poe poem features a bird who sits on a bust of Pallas and speaks only one word.
What is: The Raven
This Roald Dahl book features a brilliant young girl with telekinetic powers who uses them to scare her awful headmistress, Miss Trunchbull.
What is: Matilda
This classic L. Frank Baum novel features both a Good Witch of the North and a Wicked Witch of the West.
What is: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
This isolated, snowbound hotel is the setting for Stephen King's terrifying novel The Shining.
What is: the Overlook Hotel
This Robert Louis Stevenson novella features a mild-mannered doctor who drinks a potion to transform into his evil, monstrous alter-ego.
What is: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
This Washington Irving short story features a man who falls asleep in the Catskill Mountains for 20 years after drinking with mysterious spirits.
What is: Rip Van Winkle
This 1973 horror film about a possessed girl named Regan was based on a bestselling novel by William Peter Blatty.
What is: The Exorcist
This 1995 Broadway musical and hit novel by Gregory Maguire tells the origin story of Elphaba before she became evil.
What is: Wicked
Shirley Jackson wrote about the psychological terror inside this grand, gothic estate, widely considered one of the best literary ghost stories ever written.
What is: Hill House from The Haunting of Hill House
This is the name of the ancient, tentacled cosmic entity created by horror writer H.P. Lovecraft who sleeps in the sunken city of R'lyeh.
What is: Cthulhu
This nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll, found in Through the Looking-Glass, warns a young boy to "beware the eyes that flame" of a mythical woodland beast.
What is: Jabberwocky
Susan Hill's terrifying ghost story about a cursed specter in a black dress was turned into a stage play and later a movie starring Daniel Radcliffe.
What is: The Woman in Black