Classic Literature
From which story is the quote "To be, or not to be?"
Hamlet (1600) by William Shakespeare
From which story is the Stark family from?
A Song of Ice and Fire - George R.R. Martin
Which famous manga tells the story of a world of ninjas?
Naruto
DC Comics is short for...
Detective Comics
It tells the story of a Mafia family in New York City during the 1940s and 1950s.
The Godfather
Greek tragedy which tells the story of a man fleeing from the oracle's vision, which leads him to find Jocasta whom he falls in love but does not know she is his mother.
Oedipus Rex ( 429 BC) by Sophocles
This Brazilian novel tells the story of a gang of street children
Captains of the Sands - Jorge Amado
Japanese horror manga artist, famous for his work Uzumaki
Junji Ito
From which hero's story comes the quote "With great power comes great responsibility"
Spider-man
Psychological thriller who gave fame to the character Hannibal Lecter
The Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris
Classic of gothic literature which features an artist who falls in love with a young man whose desire is to be perpetually beautiful and young
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) by Oscar Wilde
The series takes place in a mythical parallel world which has got magic, mythical beasts and talking animals.
The Chronicles of Narnia (1950-1956) - C.S. Lewis
Drama thriller in which a mysterious serial killer is investigated by a master detective
Death Note (2003)
Contemporary horror comic-book which follows an English exorcist, whose main character first appeared as a supporting character in Swamp Thing in 1985
Hellblazer (1988)
Story by Stephen King which perpetuated the stereotype of the "Magic Black Man"
The Green Mile
Tragic play by a German writer in which a demon makes a bet with God to corrupt God's favorite human
Faust (1808) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Novel in which the appointments and encounters of the itinerant Leopold Bloom. It's story contains modernized parallels to Homer's Odyssey
Ulysses (1922) - James Joyce
Dark fantasy manga main character who wanders around a medieval world slaying demons as they are attracted to the demonic mark on his neck.
Guts (or Gatts) - Berserk (1989)
Neo-noir comics that takes place in a city with incredibly high crime rates among criminals and civilian alikes
Frank Miller's Sin City (1991)
The novel explores themes of subjugated women in a patriarchal society, loss of female agency and individuality, suppression of women's reproductive rights, and the various means by which women resist and try to gain individuality and independence.
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
A short story of a man consumed and haunted by his own guilt of murdering another person and hiding it below the wooden floor of his house.
The Tell-Tale Heart - Edgar Allan Poe
Ukrainian-born author who became famous for its literary works in Brazil. Their narrative follows closely the inner lives of the protagonists, chronicling their feelings and emotions.
Clarice Lispector
A doctor makes the highly controversial decision to save a boy's life over the mayor's, it leads to the loss of almost everything he holds dear. The only thing he keeps is his own feeling of self worth, knowing that he did the right thing in saving the boy, who came in first.
Monster (1994)
Original team of supernatural superheroes known as "The Midnight Sons"
2 Ghost Riders (Danny Ketch and Johnny Blaze), Blade and Morbius
A Korean War veteran and criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rallies up the scared patients against the tyrannical nurse.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey