Hautingly Good Movies/ Classic Horror Films
Famous Frights, Legends and History
Classic Monsters
Witches, Spells and Potions
Horror Literature
100

The Sanderson sisters come back to life in this Halloween classic.

What is Hocus Pocus

100

This New England village is famous for the 1692 witch trials.  

What is Salem, Massachusetts?

100

This monster’s weakness is silver bullets

What is a werewolf?

100

The green-skinned witch in The Wizard of Oz.

Who is the Wicked Witch of the West?

100

This author created both Dracula and his nemesis, Van Helsing.

Who is Bram Stoker?

200

This 1922 German silent film introduced Count Orlok, a stand-in for Dracula.

What is Nosferatu?

200

This haunted ship docked in California is said to have over 150 reported ghosts.

What is the Queen Mary?

200

This vampire was inspired by the real-life 15th-century ruler Vlad the Impaler.

Who is Count Dracula?

200

Famous phrase witches say while mixing potions.

What is “Double, double, toil and trouble”?

200

Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein during a competition at this famous poet’s home.

Who is Lord Byron?

300

This 1960 Hitchcock film changed cinema with its shower scene.

What is Psycho?

300

This axe murder house in Iowa is now a haunted tourist attraction.

What is the Villisca Axe Murder House?

300

He emerges from a lagoon in a 1954 Universal Pictures film.

Who is the Creature from the Black Lagoon?

300

Sabrina’s black cat’s name.

Who is Salem?

300

In Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart,” where is the old man’s body hidden?

What is under the floorboards?

400

This 1976 film about a girl with telekinetic powers was based on a Stephen King novel.

What is Carrie?

400

This American writer’s Baltimore grave is rumored to be visited by a mysterious “toaster” each year.

Who is Edgar Allan Poe?

400

In mythology, this half-human, half-horse creature is often portrayed as wild and untamed, similar in spirit to cinematic monsters. This 1925 silent horror film, starring Lon Chaney as Erik, made this disfigured musical genius one of Universal’s earliest monsters.

What is a centaur?

400

Witches famously fly using this household item.

What is a broomstick?

400

This short story features a man obsessed with his friend Roderick and the crumbling family estate.

What is The Fall of the House of Usher?

500

In The Sixth Sense, what chilling sentence does young Cole whisper?

What is “I see dead people”?

500

This prison in Pennsylvania is said to be haunted by former inmates.

What is Eastern State Penitentiary?

500

This bloodthirsty countess from history is said to have bathed in the blood of virgins to stay young

Who is Countess Elizabeth Bathory?

500

This actress played a teenage witch in the ’90s TV series.

Who is Melissa Joan Hart?

500

The monster in this classic novel is never given a name.

What is Frankenstein (or The Modern Prometheus)?

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