Monsters at the Movies
In 1931, Bela Lugosi starred as this iconic blood-sucking Count from Transylvania.
Who is Dracula?
This 1818 Mary Shelley masterpiece carries the famous subtitle The Modern Prometheus.
What is Frankenstein?
This trio of resurrecting sister witches caused mayhem in Salem, Massachusetts, in the 1993 Disney film Hocus Pocus.
Who are the Sanderson Sisters?
Associated with Halloween, this web-spinning arachnid typically has eight legs and eight eyes.
What is a spider?
Vincent Price provided the eerie spoken-word monologue for this 1982 Michael Jackson title track and legendary music video.
What is "Thriller"?
Boris Karloff was transformed into an iconic creature using green makeup and neck bolts in this 1931 classic.
What is Frankenstein? (or Frankenstein's Monster)
Who is the famous author who wrote Goosebumps?
Who is R.L. Stein
In The Wizard of Oz, this villainous green-skinned sorceress commands an army of winged monkeys.
Who is the Wicked Witch of the West?
The only mammal naturally capable of true and sustained flight, this nocturnal creature hangs upside down in caves.
What is a bat?
"Who ya gonna call?" is the famous catchy refrain from Ray Parker Jr.'s chart-topping theme song for this 1984 movie.
What is "Ghostbusters"?
Though he transforms under a full moon, Larry Talbot is better known by this title in a 1941 Universal Studios film.
What is The Wolf Man?
Edgar Allan Poe wrote of a grieving lover tortured by a talking black bird repeating this eerie one-word phrase.
What is "Nevermore"?
J.K. Rowling's legendary headmaster of Hogwarts holds the full name Albus Percival Wulfric Brian this.
What is Dumbledore?
Though their name implies they have 100 legs, these predatory arthropods actually have an odd number of leg pairs, ranging from 30 to over 300.
What is a centipede?
Bobby "Boris" Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers hit #1 on the Billboard charts in 1962 with this graveyard dance hit.
What is "Monster Mash"?
Released in 1932, this Universal horror film starring Boris Karloff as Imhotep was inspired by the real-world discovery of King Tut's tomb a decade earlier.
What is The Mummy?
Stephen King's 1977 novel set at the haunted Overlook Hotel centers on caretaker Jack Torrance and his telepathic son, Danny.
What is The Shining?
In Arthurian legend, this famous wizard served as an advisor to King Arthur and was trapped in a tree or cave by the Lady of the Lake.
Who is Merlin?
Famous for their bio-luminescent glow, these beetles use light patterns produced in their abdomens to attract mates and prey.
What are fireflies? (or lightning bugs)
Written by Danny Elfman for The Nightmare Before Christmas, this song serves as the main theme and anthem of Halloween Town.
What is "This Is Halloween"?
In 1954, Honda Ishirō directed this legendary film that introduced Japan's most famous giant kaiju to the screen.
What is Godzilla? (or Gojira)
Ray Bradbury took the title of his dark 1962 dark fantasy novel Something Wicked This Way Comes from a line spoken by a witch in this Shakespeare tragedy.
What is Macbeth?
In C.S. Lewis's The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, this main antagonist keeps Narnia locked in a perpetual state of winter with no Christmas.
Who is the White Witch? (or Jadis)
This female spider gets her ominous name from the urban myth that she frequently devours her mate after mating.
What is the Black Widow?
They're "altogether ooky"—this classic TV show theme song features iconic finger snaps alongside its harpsichord tune.
What is The Addams Family theme song?