Puritan Era
This author documented the Salem Witch Trials
Who is Cotton Mather
This is the author of "The Tell-Tale Heart" and the "Cask of Amontillado"
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
This Sigmund Freud concept describes the unsettling feeling of something familiar yet strange.
What is the Uncanny?
This photographer uncovers a disturbing secret about his girlfriend’s family in Get Out.
Who is Chris Washington?
This 1973 movie follows two priests attempting to save a young girl from demonic possession.
What is the Exorcist?
Puritans believed that this supernatural force could influence individuals and lead them to sin.
What is the Devil?
This is the type of horror H.P Lovecraft's stories focus on.
What is Cosmic horror?
This is Fred Botting text on the origins of the horror genre.
What is Gothic:The New Critical Medium?
This Catholic priest struggles with his faith while helping perform an exorcism.
Who is Father Karras?
What is Get Out?
This story by Nathaniel Hawthorne critiques Puritan beliefs
What is Young Goodman Brown?
This is a Lovecraft story about a woman's psychological deterioration while battling postpartum depression.
What is "The Yellow Wallpaper"?
This person was the most commercially successful Gothic novelist.
Who is Ann Radcliffe?
This aggressive and stubborn man clashes with others while hiding in the basement in Night of the Living Dead.
Who is Harry Cooper?
Set in Puritan New England, this folk horror film follows a family whose religious fears begin to turn against them in the wilderness.
What is The Witch: A New England Folktale?
This concept refers to the belief that God has already determined who will be sent to heaven and sent to hell.
What is predestination?
This author holds the record as the bestseller for the horror genre.
Who is Stephen King?
What genre of horror is described by this "the universe is coldly indifferent to the existence
of human beings".
What is Cosmic Horror?
This seemingly kind husband hides a horrifying secret about his role in his wife’s pregnancy in Rosemary’s Baby.
Who is Guy Woodhouse?
In this classic possession-adjacent horror film, Rosemary begins to suspect her neighbors may be involved in a terrifying conspiracy surrounding her unborn child.
What is Rosemary's Baby?
Puritans believed that disease or crop failure were signs of this.
What is divine judgment?
What other famous book did the author of The October Country Ray Bradbury write.
What is Fahrenheit 451?
This German word means the opposite of what is familiar.
What is Unheimlich?
This archaeologist secretly leads a double life as a guerrilla fighter and serves as a moral counterpoint to fascist brutality in Pan’s Labyrinth.
Who is Mercedes?
This 1978 remake of a Cold War-era horror story shows ordinary people slowly replaced by emotionless duplicates in San Francisco.
What is Invasion of the Body Snatchers?