In this 1978 horror classic, Michael Myers escapes from a psychiatric hospital and returns to his hometown on October 31.
What is Halloween?
Halloween takes place on this date every year.
What is October 31?
This legendary creature is said to transform from human to wolf during the full moon.
What is a werewolf?
This orange and white candy shaped like a triangle is a Halloween staple.
What is candy corn?
This creature is famous for hanging upside down and using echolocation to navigate.
What is a bat?
This movie features a doll named Chucky who is possessed by the soul of a serial killer.
What is Child's Play?
This ancient Celtic festival, associated with the end of the harvest and the beginning of winter, helped influence Halloween traditions.
What is Samhain?
This undead creature is traditionally said to sleep in a coffin and avoid sunlight.
What is a vampire?
This chocolate candy features a peanut butter center surrounded by a chocolate shell.
What is a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup?
This term describes an intense fear of spiders.
What is arachnophobia?
In this horror franchise, a masked killer named Ghostface terrorizes teenagers and frequently calls his victims on the phone.
What is Scream?
The word Halloween is derived from this phrase, meaning the evening before All Saints' Day.
What is All Hallows' Eve?
In Greek mythology, this monster has snakes for hair, and looking directly at her can turn you to stone.
Who is Medusa?
This Halloween tradition involves going door to door asking for candy using a familiar three-word phrase.
What is trick-or-treating?
This is the name for the study of ghosts and other allegedly paranormal phenomena.
What is parapsychology?
In this 1980 Stanley Kubrick film, Jack Torrance takes a job as a winter caretaker at the Overlook Hotel.
What is The Shining?
Before pumpkins became popular jack-o'-lanterns in America, people in Ireland traditionally carved this vegetable.
What are turnips?
This Egyptian mythological creature has a human body and the head of a jackal and is associated with mummification and the dead.
Who is Anubis?
This candy bar combines chocolate, caramel, and nougat, and has a space related name.
What is a Milky Way?
This gas, produced by decaying organic material in some environments, is commonly associated with swamp gas and the folklore of will-o'-the-wisps.
What is methane?
In this 1973 horror film, a young girl named Regan becomes possessed by a demon named Pazuzu.
What is The Exorcist?
According to Irish folklore, this wandering soul is associated with the origin of the jack-o'-lantern.
Who is Stingy Jack? Other answers: Jack the Smith, Drunk Jack, Flaky Jack
In Irish folklore, this supernatural female spirit is said to wail to warn of an approaching death.
What is a banshee?
Before becoming the famous candy bar we know today, this chocolate treat was originally sold in 1932 under the name Rowntree's Chocolate Crisp.
What is KitKat?
This astronomical phenomenon occurs when the Moon passes into Earth's shadow, sometimes turning reddish in color.
What is a total lunar eclipse?