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Clue:This iconic slasher villain wears a white mask originally molded from a Captain Kirk face.
What is Michael Myers?
Clue: This 2013 Ethan Hawke home-invasion thriller used the chilling premise: "One night a year all crime is legal".
What is The Purge?
Clue: This 1818 gothic novel by Mary Shelley tells the tale of a young scientist and the 8-foot-tall creature he brings to life.
What is Frankenstein?
Clue: In this massively popular game, players must survive five nights working as a security guard at Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria.
What is Five Nights at Freddy's?
Clue: Players race to wrap a teammate as fast as possible using rolls of cheap white toilet paper to turn them into this classic monster.
What is a mummy wrap?
Clue:This Transylvanian count prefers a liquid diet and sleeps in a box filled with native soil.
Who is Count Dracula?
Clue: To bring the Sanderson sisters back to life, a virgin has to light this specific object on Halloween night.
What is the Black Flame Candle?
Clue: In Washington Irving’s story, this schoolteacher rides through Sleepy Hollow before a fateful encounter with the Headless Horseman.
Who is Ichabod Crane?
Clue: This Nintendo franchise features Mario's brother exploring haunted mansions with a specialized vacuum cleaner called the Poltergust.
What is Luigi's Mansion?
Clue: This traditional party game involves trying to catch a floating McIntosh or Granny Smith with your teeth, traced back to a Roman festival for Pomona.
What is bobbing for apples?
Clue:Winifred, Sarah, and Mary are the villainous sister trio resurrected by a virgin lighting the Black Flame Candle in this 1993 Disney film.
Who are the Sanderson Sisters (from Hocus Pocus)?
Clue: Wes Craven's 1996 meta-slasher asks its teenage victims over the phone: "What's your favorite" this?
What is a scary movie?
Clue: In Bram Stoker’s Dracula, this eccentric lawyer travels to Transylvania to help Count Dracula purchase an estate in London.
Who is Jonathan Harker?
Clue: This viral internet lore-turned-game features an endless labyrinth of empty, yellow office rooms and a distinct fluorescent hum.
What are The Backrooms?
Clue: This musical game requires players to freeze in place the moment the monster mash or spooky tune stops playing, or else they are out.
What is Halloween freeze dance (or musical statues)?
Clue:This master of illusion and escape died on Halloween in 1926.
Who is Harry Houdini?
Clue: In The Shining, guests are warned to stay far away from this specific room number.
What is Room 237?
Clue: Edgar Allan Poe wrote of a guilty narrator driven mad by the rhythmic, beating sound of this body part hidden beneath the floorboards.
What is a heart? (from "The Tell-Tale Heart")
Clue: This tall, faceless entity in a suit originated as an internet creepypasta before starring in his own forest-based survival game.
Who is Slender Man?
Clue: In this spooky parlor game, blindfolded guests feel peeled grapes for "eyeballs" and cold spaghetti for "guts."
What is the tactile "feel the body parts" (or haunted house tactile) game?
Clue: Created by writer Mary Shelley in 1818, the scientist who gave life to the monster shares this last name.
Who is Frankenstein?
Clue: Tim Burton's 1999 gothic horror starring Johnny Depp as Ichabod Crane promised that this grim anatomical event "will roll".
What is "Heads will roll"?
Clue: Henry James’s novella The Turn of the Screw features an inexperienced governess caring for two children at this remote Victorian estate.
What is Bly?
Clue: This choice-driven PlayStation game follows eight teenagers trying to survive the night on Blackwood Mountain against monsters called Wendigos.
What is Until Dawn?
Clue: This Irish fruitcake tradition hides a small ring inside; whoever finds it in their slice is said to be the next to get married.
What is barmbrack?