Gothic
In this story by Bram Stoker, a Transylvania castle has a famous vampire by the same name.
What is Dracula?
This holiday tale features a rich man named Scrooge who is visited by three ghosts, representing the past, the present, and the future.
What is A Christmas Carol?
Slasher literature comes from this central theme.
What is (brutal) violence?
This 1930s dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley was set in a futuristic World State with citizens engineered in artificial wombs.
What is Brave New World?
This highly popular series (which also falls under the "fantasy" genre) by J.R.R. Tolkien is set in Middle Earth with men, dwarves, and elves.
What is The Lord of the Rings?
In this story by Mary Shelley, a young scientist creates a human-like creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.
What is Frankenstein?
The film version of this winter ghost story by Stephen King was completed at the Timberline Lodge near Portland, Oregon.
What is The Shining?
Slasher stories involve a killer typically using this kind of weapon.
What are knives, razors, and other sharp objects?
This 1949 dystopian novel by George Orwell features Winston living in a totalitarian world run by Big Brother.
What is 1984?
This 1965 epic science fiction novel about a distant future in which the planet becomes an inhospitable and sparsely populated desert wasteland has become a recent blockbuster multi-million dollar franchise starring Timothee Chalamet.
What is Dune?
This famous gothic author wrote creepy poetry and terrifying short stories such as The Tell-Tale Heart and The Pit and the Pendulum.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
This Harvey comics character entered into the public scene in 1949, became a 1990s childrens film, and was known as the "friendly ghost."
Who is Casper?
This 1970s book which was turned into a slasher film in the 1990s is about a group of teenagers who commit a hit and run and are haunted by threatening notes which follow.
What is I Know What You Did Last Summer?
This friendless, bullied high school student turns the tables on her oppressors with her telekinetic powers in a Stephen King story by the same name.
Who is Carrie?
This late 19th century science fiction novel by H.G. Wells was one of the first stories depicting an alien invasion of earth.
What is War of the Worlds?
Gothic literature was written in these two centuries.
What is the 18th and 19th centuries?
This 1950s supernatural tale is a fictionalized version of the Salem Witch Trials and was written in the form of a play.
What is The Crucible?
This 1959 horror novel on Norman Bates, a murderous motel caretaker, quickly became a 1960 Alfred Hitchcock screenplay.
What is Psycho?
This post-apocalyptic horror novel by Richard Matheson popularized the concept of a plague sweeping through large cities and leaving one man to fight zombies.
In Isaac Asimov's I, Robot not harming a human being while also following their orders and protecting their own existence was known as the three __ of Robotics.
What are laws?
This is a central theme of gothic literature.
What is fear of the unknown?
This feminist short story features a woman descending into madness when her physician husband confines her to an upstairs room to heal from a "temporary nervous depression."
What is The Yellow Wallpaper?
This recently deceased director made an impact through being inspired by horror literature to create many of the slasher films we know today, such as Scream and Nightmare on Elm Street.
Who is Wes Craven?
This type of novel both precedes and overlaps with the apocalyptic novel.
What is dystopian?
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a highly popular comedic science fiction series, found this number to be "the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything."
What is 42?