Spine-Tingling Songs
Boo Who?
Scary Movies 101
Screams & Streams
Historic Authors of Ghouls
Haunted History
Legends & Lore
Spooky Sweet Treats
Hocus Pocus
100
This composed track opens The Nightmare Before Christmas and features the citizens of Halloween Town introducing themselves.
What is This Is Halloween?
100
This disembodied hand is a loyal member of the Addams Family.
What is Thing?
100
A young girl is stalked while babysitting, with the tension heightened by a now-iconic piano theme.
What is Halloween?
100
These mystery-solving friends travel in the Mystery Machine to unmask villains all over the country.
Who are Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy, and Scooby-Doo?
100
This British author created the vampire Count Dracula.
Who is Bram Stoker?
100
This American house in Fall River, Massachusetts, was the site of a famous axe murder.
What is the Lizzie Borden House?
100
This half-human, half-wolf monster is slain by silver.
What is a werewolf?
100
This striped Halloween candy divides America—love it or hate it.
What is candy corn?
100
The Sanderson sisters return to this town after 300 years.
What is Salem?
200
Marilyn Manson covered this Eurythmics hit in 1995, turning its synth-pop edge into something truly sinister.
What is Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)?
200
This shape-shifting clown terrorizes the children of Derry, Maine, in Stephen King’s It.
Who is Pennywise?
200
The film features a scene in which a bio-exorcist uses sand, bones, and a fog-filled staircase to scare two unsuspecting homeowners.
What is Beetlejuice?
200
A Disney Channel Original Movie features a girl discovering she comes from a long line of witches.
What is Halloweentown?
200
She was only 18 when she wrote Frankenstein.
Who is Mary Shelley?
200
The infamous “Amityville Horror” was based on events in this state.
What is New York?
200
The Scottish spirit who wails to foretell death is known as this.
What is a banshee?
200
A chocolate bar filled with nougat, caramel, and peanuts.
What is a Snickers?
200
This black cat helps Max and Dani defeat the witches.
Who is Thackery Binx?
300
This Stevie Wonder hit, often played at Halloween, warns you to beware of the things “that go bump in the night.”
What is Superstition?
300
These three witchy sisters were resurrected on Halloween night in the movie Hocus Pocus.
Who are Winifred, Sarah, and Mary Sanderson?
300
A spinning head scene shocks the audience, becoming one of the most iconic visual effects in horror.
What is The Exorcist?
300
This movie takes place in a house called the Pink Palace, which is divided into three separate apartments for its tenants.
What is Coraline?
300
This American poet wrote “The Raven.”
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
300
This London, England castle is said to house the ghosts of two murdered princes.
What is the Tower of London?
300
Originating in Mexico, this blood-sucking creature’s name literally means “goat-sucker.”
What is the Chupacabra?
300
These peanut butter–filled chocolates come in pumpkin shapes every October.
What are Reese’s Pumpkins?
300
The spell to revive the sisters is triggered when this happens.
What is lighting the Black Flame Candle?
400
The 1989 Bobby Brown hit from Ghostbusters II features the line, “Too hot to handle, too cold to hold.”
What is On Our Own?
400
This author first wrote the witchy phrase “Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble.”
Who is William Shakespeare (in Macbeth)?
400
Mischievous creatures cause chaos in a movie theater, including a scene where Snow White is interrupted.
What is Gremlins?
400
In Harry Potter, this sweet treat is said to help you recover after an encounter with a dementor.
What is chocolate?
400
This author’s short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” gave us the Headless Horseman.
Who is Washington Irving?
400
This New Orleans mansion is infamous for its owner’s cruel experiments on enslaved people.
What is the LaLaurie Mansion?
400
This ghostly rider was said to be a Hessian mercenary who died during the American Revolution.
Who is the Headless Horseman?
400
A caramel-covered apple rolled in nuts is known by this alliterative name.
What is a candy apple?
400
What’s the bully’s name who steals Max’s shoes?
ICE
500
This song’s chilling monologue was performed by horror icon Vincent Price, who was paid a one-time fee of $1,000 instead of royalties — a haunting decision in hindsight.
What is Thriller?
500
In 1897, a ______ oddly helped to create cotton candy.
500
This found-footage horror movie made the woods of Maryland infamous.
What is The Blair Witch Project?
500
This repurposed New York City firehouse serves as headquarters for the Ghostbusters.
What is Hook & Ladder 8?
500
This Irish playwright wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Who is Oscar Wilde?
500
This Colorado hotel inspired Stephen King’s The Shining.
What is The Stanley Hotel?
500
In 1969, residents near Fort Worth’s Greer Island reported sightings of a large, scaly humanoid creature that allegedly hurled a tire at bystanders and leapt into the lake.
What is the Lake Worth Monster or the Lake Worth Goat Man?
500
This traditional British dessert is said to be made with “blood,” but it’s really just molasses.
What is treacle tart?
500
What year were the Sanderson Sisters hanged
What is 1693?