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This Shirley Jackson novel tells the story of Eleanor Vance, a middle-class Boston faildaughter who gets her ego annihilated at a creepy house up in Vermont.
What is The Haunting of Hill House?
This Japanese city is known for its shrines and temples and for surviving World War II mostly intact.
What is Kyoto?
This legendary singer recorded multiple live albums at infamous California prisons.
Who is Johnny Cash?
This elf was adapted out in the Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings movies in favor of an expanded role for Arwen.
Who is Glorfindel?
This family of Christian denominations mostly present in Africa and the Middle East is not to be confused with a larger family associated with Eastern Europe.
What is Oriental Orthodoxy?
This Welsh novelist is best known for her dark historical novels featuring lesbian protagonists.
Who is Sarah Waters?
This immensely popular religious figure hailed from the Italian region of Umbria.
Who is St. Francis of Assisi?
This Carter Family matriarch was the first lead guitarist of any band in popular music history.
Who is Maybelle Carter?
This hobbit was the focus of one of Frodo Baggins's childhood phobias, but ends up assisting Frodo early in The Fellowship of the Ring.
Who is Farmer Maggot?
This female religious figure was in some ways the most powerful political arbiter in Classical Greece, when people bothered to seek her advice.
Who was the Pythia?
This short story by Flannery O'Connor features one of the first serious portrayals of an intersex character in American letters.
What is A Temple of the Holy Ghost?
Poet and musician Leonard Cohen was born, raised, and is buried in this Canadian city.
This Loretta Lynn song rhymes "die" with "Hezeki(ah)".
For most of the First Age, this Noldorin prince commanded Himring, the outpost at the most risk of direct assault by Morgoth's forces.
Who is Maedhros?
This pietistic, relatively lay-oriented family of Buddhist denominations is the most common organized religious affiliation in contemporary Japan.
What is Pure Land?
This Japanese crime novelist tends to write morally complex stories with mostly-female ensemble casts.
Who is Natsuo Kirino?
This Catholic religious order maintains elaborate underground ossuaries that are open to the public in multiple Italian cities.
Who are the Capuchins?
Taylor Swift appears as a voice actress in this infamous (in some circles) children's movie.
Who is Erendis?
Midcentury religious scholar R.C. Zaehner controversially classified this tenet of Marxist ideology as a religious belief.
What is dialectical materialism?
This character in Tamsyn Muir's Locked Tomb series gives herself a lobotomy to preserve the soul of the friend she killed and ate to achieve immortality.
Who is Harrowhark Nonagesimus?
This Japanese prefecture is home to the so-called Grave of Christ, a tourist trap premised on an ultranationalist conspiracy theory from the 1930s.
What is Aomori Prefecture?
This musician was the first black member of the Grand Ole Opry.
Who is DeFord Bailey?
The incredibly downbeat final poem in The Adventures of Tom Bombadil focuses on this Fourth Age Gondorian woman.
Who is Firiel?
This genre of Jewish mystical writing may have been an influence on the Catholic theologian St. Teresa of Avila.
What is Hekhalot literature?