Monsters & Creatures
According to folklore, this classic shape-shifter is vulnerable only to a silver bullet.
What is a werewolf?
Halloween is believed to have originated in an ancient Celtic festival that celebrated the new year and the harvest.
What is Samhain?
This masked killer haunts the teenagers of Haddonfield, Illinois, in the iconic Halloween film franchise.
Who is Michael Myers?
This fictional, macabre family includes members named Gomez, Morticia, Wednesday, and Pugsley.
Who are the Addams Family?
Originally called "chicken feed," this tri-colored triangular candy is a highly debated Halloween staple.
What is candy corn?
Bram Stoker based his famous vampire, Count Dracula, on the 15th-century Romanian ruler.
Who is Vlad the Impaler (Vlad III)?
Before pumpkins became the norm, people in Ireland and Scotland traditionally carved these root vegetables to ward off evil spirits.
What are turnips?
"He's horizontal!" is a misquoted line from this 1973 film about a possessed young girl named Regan.
What is The Exorcist?
He wrote the classic 1845 narrative poem "The Raven," featuring a grieving man and a talking bird.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
Surveys consistently rank this chocolate and peanut butter treat as the most popular Halloween candy in the U.S.
What are Reese's Peanut Butter Cups?
This giant, reanimated monster was famously created from corpse parts by an ambitious scientist in Mary Shelley's 1818 novel.
What is Frankenstein's monster?
The word "Halloween" is a shortening of this phrase, which refers to the night before All Saints' Day.
What is All Hallows' Eve?
In the movie Scream, the killer uses this specific name while wearing a melting white mask.
What is Ghostface?
In The Nightmare Before Christmas, this character is known as the "Pumpkin King" of Halloween Town.
Who is Jack Skellington?
This candy's famous 1970s slogan warns consumers to "Taste the Rainbow."
What are Skittles?
In Egyptian mythology, this wrapped undead creature is often awakened by a curse written on a tomb.
What is a mummy?
This state produces more pumpkins than any other U.S. state, harvesting about 500 million pounds annually.
What is Illinois?
This 1980 Stanley Kubrick film features a haunted hotel, creepy twins, and the terrifying phrase "Redrum."
What is The Shinning?
This author wrote the Goosebumps children's horror book series, terrifying kids throughout the 1990s and beyond.
Who is R.L. Stine?
Named after a favorite family horse, this nougat, caramel, and peanut bar was introduced by Mars in 1930.
What is a Snickers bar?
This legendary Greek monster has snakes for hair, and anyone who looks directly at her turns to stone.
Who is Medusa?
In the Middle Ages, poor people went door-to-door on Hallowmas offering prayers for the dead in exchange for these small cakes.
What are soul cakes?
This is the name of the fictional summer camp where Jason Voorhees drowned in the Friday the 13th series.
What is Camp Crystal Lake?
This famous illusionist and escape artist died on Halloween night in 1926 from a ruptured appendix.
Who is Harry Houdini?
These small, colorful, fruit-flavored tablets come in a clear roll with crimped edges and are a staple of cheap Halloween handouts.
What are smarties?