Anime
In this massively popular dark fantasy anime, high school student Light Yagami finds a supernatural notebook that kills anyone whose name is written inside.
What is Death Note?
In this acclaimed 2013 PlayStation action-adventure game, Joel and Ellie must survive a post-apocalyptic United States overrun by humans infected by a mutated Cordyceps fungus.
What is The Last of Us?
This part of speech describes a noun or pronoun, such as calling a ghost "spooky" or a pumpkin "orange."
What is an adjective?
In The Simpsons, the annual Halloween special is known by this specific, spooky title name.
What is "Treehouse of Horror"
king place in colonial Massachusetts in 1692, this mass hysteria trial resulted in more than 200 people being accused of witchcraft and 19 being hanged.
what are the Salem witch trials?
This brutal dark fantasy anime follows the tragic mercenary Guts, known as the "Black Swordsman," as he battles demonic apostles and his former friend Griffith.
What is Berserk?
Set in an underwater, retro-futuristic city named Rapture, this iconic horror-shooter features genetically altered humans called Splicers and the iconic, towering enemies in diving suits known as Big Daddies.
What is BioShock?
This figure of speech compares two things using the words "like" or "as," such as saying "as cold as a zombie's hand."
What is a simile?
this beloved 90s sitcom, stars teenage witch Sabrina Spellman who lives with her two magical aunts, Hilda and Zelda, and a talking black cat named Salem.
What is Sabrina the Teenage Witch?
Signed into law by President Thomas Jefferson in 1803, this massive land acquisition from France nearly doubled the size of the United States for roughly 15 million dollars.
What is the Louisiana Purchase
in this eerie 2009 psychological horror series, a cursed seaside town becomes consumed by a bizarre, fatal obsession with spiral shapes.
What is Uzumaki?
This psychological thriller game follows high school students trapped inside a school where the only way to graduate is to murder a classmate and get away with it during a class trial hosted by a robotic teddy bear named Monokuma.
What is Danganronpa
is is the literary term for a central message, underlying meaning, or recurring concept in a story, like isolation in Frankenstein or grief in The Haunting of Hill House
What is a theme?
In this beloved 1965 animated special, Linus spends all night sitting in a pumpkin patch waiting for a mythical holiday figure to appear.
What is It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown?
Operating out of a federal penitentiary on an island in San Francisco Bay from 1934 to 1963, this maximum-security American prison held infamous gangsters like Al Capone and "Machine Gun" Kelly.
What is Alcatraz?
Directed by Hideaki Anno, this landmark 1995 mecha anime deconstructed the genre and heavily influenced modern pop culture, featuring teenage pilots fighting mysterious beings known as Angels.
What is Neon Genesis Evangelion?
This harrowing first-person survival horror game traps players on a remote station overrun by a single, terrifyingly intelligent Xenomorph that tracks you using motion and sound.
What is Alien: Isolation?
form of personification where inanimate objects or abstract ideas are given human traits.
What is Personification
In the horror-anthology television series created by Ryan Murphy, this iconic 2011 debut season follows the Harmon family as they move into a heavily haunted Los Angeles mansion where Halloween night is the only time ghosts can freely walk among the living.
What is American Horror Story
This devastating 1911 industrial disaster in New York City resulted in the tragic deaths of 146 garment workers—mostly young immigrant women—spurring major American labor laws and sparking enduring ghost stories in the Asch Building.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire?
In Re:Zero, Subaru Natsuki's devastating time-loop ability is triggered exclusively by his own death, sending him back to a specific checkpoint. What is the literal, in-universe name of this tragic power?
What is "Return by Death"?
set inside an eerie, isolated mansion overrun by ghosts, this unique Japanese survival horror series forces players to battle restless spirits using only an antique camera known as the Camera Obscura.
What is Fatal Frame
Derived from Greek roots meaning "all" and "fear," this specific sub-genre of horror fiction deals with existential terror and things that are universally terrifying to humanity.
What is panphobia
in this psychological thriller television series based on Thomas Harris's novels, the Season 2 Halloween-themed episode features a striking, surreal opening sequence where Will Graham is trapped in a dream-like state, hunted by a monstrous stag while standing inside a massive, blood-soaked skull.
What is Hannibal?
This notorious Confederate submarine became the first combat submarine in history to sink an enemy warship during the American Civil War in 1864, though it famously sank along with its crew.
What is the H.L. Hunley?