Horror Movie Mayhem
This masked killer terrorized Camp Crystal Lake and became famous for wearing a hockey mask.
Jason Voorhees
This TV series featured a ventriloquist dummy named Slappy.
Goosebumps
A group of witches is traditionally known by this name.
A coven
This Michael Jackson song features an iconic zombie dance and a Vincent Price voiceover.
Thriller
This vegetable was traditionally carved into lanterns in Ireland before pumpkins became popular.
Turnips
In this 1996 horror film, a phone call asking 'What's your favorite scary movie?' became iconic.
Scream
This friendly ghost starred in a 1995 movie and had a famous catchphrase involving being your friendly neighborhood ghost.
Casper
This Halloween tradition involves trying to grab floating fruit using only your teeth.
Bobbing for apples
This fictional family includes Gomez, Morticia, Wednesday, and Pugsley.
The Addams Family
This animal is famously associated with witches, bad luck, and Halloween.
A black cat
This hotel was the setting for Jack Torrance's descent into madness in a Stanley Kubrick horror classic.
The Overlook Hotel
This Nickelodeon cartoon featured a cowardly pink dog living with an elderly couple in the middle of nowhere.
Courage the Cowardly Dog
This superstition says you may summon a supernatural figure by repeating his name three times in front of a mirror.
Beetlejuice
This 1999 found-footage horror movie follows filmmakers investigating a Maryland legend.
The Blair Witch Project
This real-life ship is said to sail the seas forever, unable to make port.
The Flying Dutchman
This possessed doll's full name is Charles Lee Ray, but everyone knows him by another name.
Chucky
This anthology horror series began each episode with a group of kids gathering around a campfire.
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
This term describes the fear of Halloween itself.
Samhainophobia
This horror host, with a skeletal appearance and a wicked laugh, introduced stories on Tales from the Crypt.
The Crypt Keeper
This historical event in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692 led to accusations of witchcraft and executions.
The Salem Witch Trials
In this 1976 horror film, a teenage girl discovers she has telekinetic powers after a humiliating prom night.
Carrie
In this 1995 movie, two siblings discover a magical board game that unleashes jungle dangers into their home.
Jumanji
In folklore, this creature supposedly transforms from human to wolf during a full moon.
A werewolf
This 1990 supernatural thriller features a young boy who famously tells a child psychologist that he can see spirits who don't realize they're dead.
What is The Sixth Sense?
This unusual fear has the scientific name hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.
Fear of long words