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Spooky Book Facts
100

This detective wears a deerstalker hat and says "Elementary, my dear Watson."

Sherlock Holmes

100

This famous monster is brought to like by Dr. Frankenstein

Frankenstein's monster

100

This kind of book keeps readers on the edge of their seats, often with danger or surprise.

Thriller
100

This holiday is most often linked with scary stories and horror books

Halloween

200

This famous author wrote mystery books like Murder on the Orient Express and Ans Then There Were None.

Agatha Christie

200

This vampire from Transylvania is afraid of sunlight and garlic.

Dracula

200

In this book by Gillian Flynn, a woman disappears and her husband is blamed.

Gone Girl

200

You usually feel this emotion while reading horror or scary thrillers

fear

300

This girl detective drives a blue car and solves mysteries in her town.

Nancy Drew

300

This author of The Shining and It is called the "King of Horror"

Stephen King

300

This Dan Brown book is about secret codes and the Mona Lisa.

The Da Vinci Code

300

This room in a haunted house is often the creepiest

Basement or Attic

400

This group of four kids and a dog solves spooky mysteries in a van called the Mystery Machine.

Scooby- Doo/ Mystery Inc.

400

In this haunted house book by Shirley Jackson, strange things happen at Hill House.

The Haunting of Hill House

400

This thriller is about a girl who sees something suspicious while riding a train.

The Girl on the Train

400

This is what you call the person who solves the mystery in a story.

detective

500

This type of clue is meant to mislead the reader in a mystery story.

red herring
500

This scary clown lives in the sewers in Stephen King's It.

Pennywise

500

This Swedish thriller features Lisbeth Salander, a hacker and investigator.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

500

This kind of ending happens when you don't expect what's coming

Plot twist

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