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This orange vegetable is carved into grinning faces and lit up on Halloween.
What is a Pumpkin?
This hockey-mask-wearing killer terrorizes Camp Crystal Lake in a famous slasher film franchise.
Who is Jason Voorhees?
This is the common name for the spirit of a dead person believed to haunt the living.
What is a Ghost?
According to superstition, this animal crossing your path is considered bad luck.
What is a Black Cat?
In Edgar Allan Poe's famous poem, this bird repeatedly says “Nevermore.”
What is a Raven?
On what date is Halloween celebrated every year?
What is October 31st?
In this 1975 blockbuster, a giant shark terrorizes beachgoers on Amity Island.
What is Jaws?
A person who claims to communicate with the spirits of the dead is called this.
What is a Medium?
Some elevator companies often skip a number on their button panels due to triskaidekaphobia, or the fear of this..?
What is the number 13?
This author wrote Frankenstein, the story of a scientist who creates a living being.
Who is Mary Shelley?
Halloween's name comes from a shortened form of this term, meaning the evening before All Saints' Day.
This Stephen King adaptation features a clown named Pennywise who preys on children.
What is IT?
This term describes a supposed recording of a voice or sound from a spirit, captured on electronic equipment.
What is an EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomenon)?
This object is traditionally hung over a doorway to ward off evil spirits in some folklore traditions.
What is a Horseshoe?
In Bram Stoker's 1897 novel, this Transylvanian nobleman is the infamous vampire.
Who is Count Dracula?
Before pumpkins became popular in America, people in parts of Ireland and Scotland carved this root vegetable into lanterns.
What is a Turnip?
In this 1984 film a couple is trapped in a town where a religious cult of children believes that everyone over age 18 must be killed.
What is Children of the Corn?
This famous Massachusetts town became synonymous with witchcraft trials in 1692.
What is Salem?
DAILY DOUBLE!
In Scottish folklore, this supernatural omen is a female spirit whose wailing is said to foretell a death.
What is a Banshee?
This author created Sherlock Holmes, but also wrote the supernatural horror story The Hound of the Baskervilles.
Who is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?
In 19th-century America, a favorite rural Halloween trick was sneaking into a neighbor’s farm, dismantling one of these heavy vehicles, and completely reassembling it on top of their barn roof.
What is a Wagon?
This 1922 silent horror film introduced audiences to Count Orlok, an iconic vampire inspired by Dracula.
What is Nosferatu?
This famous London fortress is said to be haunted by the ghost of Anne Boleyn, one of Henry VIII's wives.
What is The Tower of London?
In some East Asian cultures, this number is avoided because its pronunciation resembles the word for “death.”
What is the number 4?
This author wrote The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, featuring the Headless Horseman.
Who is Washington Irving?