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This Hungarian horror icon was laid to rest wearing the costume of his iconic role.
Who is Bela Lugosi?
This movie is the only horror film to ever win Best Picture, and some still argue whether or not it counts.
What is The Silence of the Lambs?
Tarot is a set of playing cards used in this kind of divination.
What is cartomancy?
Fears around backmasking being used to instill Satanic messages began in 1981 with this song.
What is Stairway to Heaven?
To get all your juices out, an embalmer is likely to use this scary-looking instrument.
What is a trocar?
A single red rose is placed on this author's grave on their birthday, by an unidentified person.
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
Despite popular belief, the town in this horror video game has nothing to do with Centralia, Pennsylvania.
What is Silent Hill?
Some divide approaches to magic into this dichotomy, as might diverge in a wood.
What are the left and right hand path?
Panic over Dungeons & Dragons was crystallized in Dark Dungeons, one of these pieces of religious comic book propaganda.
What is a Chick tract?
This location in the Czech Republic is home to the skeletons of between 40 and 70 thousand people.
What is the Sedlec Ossuary?
This Frankenstein's monster is rumored to have been bitter rivals with Bela Lugosi, but by all accounts they had a cordial working relationship.
Who is Boris Karloff?
Some consider the first creepypasta to be this story, published on an Angelfire site in 2001.
What is Ted the Caver?
Across cultures and throughout history, people have carried talismans, particularly glass beads, to protect from this curse.
What is the evil eye?
In 2000, a Vatican-operated TV station broadcast a message in defense of this popular Japanese children's video game franchise against claims that it was a tool of Satan, saying that it is based on "ties of intense friendship."
What is Pokémon?
This process of heating a cadaver in a high-PH solution to reduce it to "ashes" is popularly called aquamation.
What is alkaline hydrolysis?
This novelist is believed by some to have lost her virginity atop her mother's grave.
Who is Mary Shelley?
SAM, or Software Automatic Mouth, an early 80s voice synthesis program provides the voice for characters in this indie horror video game series.
What is FAITH: The Unholy Trinity?
This maxim summarizes a belief in the mutual effect of celestial happenings on earthly things, and vice-versa, and/or the self-similarity of the universe in macrocosm and microcosm, within a variety of beliefs.
What is "As above, so below"?
James Dallas Egbert III disappeared into a system of utility tunnels under his university in 1979, which police and a private investigator attributed to this hobby.
What is Dungeons & Dragons?
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What is live-action roleplaying?
One Japanese funeral tradition is for members of the family to pick bones out of the ashes with chopsticks and place them in an urn, which is why this dinner table faux-pas is so rude.
This legendary scream queen dropped out of college because she wasn't really a fan of witnessing a monkey vivisection.
Who is Shelley Duvall?
This cult classic film's fascination with lagomorphs extends to the new wave band picked for it's opening sequence.
What is Donnie Darko?
What is Mabon?
Into the Coven by Mercyful Fate and Possessed by Venom were included on a list of objectionable songs by the Parents Music Resource Center, a pet project of this second lady.
Who is Tipper Gore?
The word casket originally referred to this non-death related item, until it was adopted by undertakers as a euphemism.
What is a jewelry box?