Monsters and Creatures
This legendary creature drinks blood and is often depicted with fangs.
What is a vampire?
This pointed item of headwear is a classic part of a witch’s costume.
What is a witch’s hat?
This author wrote the vampire novel Dracula, published in 1897.
Who is Bram Stoker?
This American serial killer became known as the “Milwaukee Cannibal.”
Who is Jeffrey Dahmer?
This disembodied hand is a member of the Addams Family.
What is Thing?
This creature is said to transform into a wolf, often during a full moon.
What is a werewolf?
This Massachusetts town became famous for its 1692 witch trials.
What is Salem?
This author wrote Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.
Who is Mary Shelley?
This British doctor was convicted of murdering multiple patients and was exposed after suspicions arose about unusually high numbers of deaths among those in his care.
Who is Harold Shipman?
This dream-stalking villain from A Nightmare on Elm Street wears a bladed glove.
Who is Freddy Krueger?
This supernatural being is said to haunt the living after death.
What is a ghost?
This is the traditional name for a gathering or group of witches.
What is a coven?
This American author wrote “The Tell-Tale Heart” and created detective C. Auguste Dupin.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
This unidentified killer terrorized the San Francisco Bay Area and sent taunting letters to newspapers in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Who is the Zodiac Killer?
This is the first name of the possessed girl in The Exorcist.
Who is Regan?
This is the term for a supernatural animal companion associated with a witch.
What is a familiar?
This supernatural figure in folklore is said to visit or terrify sleeping people at night.
What is a night hag?
This author wrote “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” featuring the Headless Horseman.
Who is Washington Irving?
This American serial killer, known as the “Night Stalker,” committed a series of murders and other violent crimes in California in 1984–1985.
Who is Richard Ramirez?
This 1922 silent horror film features the vampire Count Orlok.
What is Nosferatu?
This term describes a supernatural double of a living person.
What is a doppelgänger?
This notorious witch-hunting treatise was published by Heinrich Kramer in the late fifteenth century.
What is Malleus Maleficarum?
This is the name of the scientist who creates the creature in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
Who is Victor Frankenstein?
This serial killer, known as the “BTK Killer,” used a nickname derived from the phrase “Bind, Torture, Kill.”
Who is Dennis Rader?
This author wrote the 1959 novel The Haunting of Hill House.
Who is Shirley Jackson?