Gothic Classics
Who wrote Frankenstein, often called the first science fiction novel?
Mary Shelley
What bird famously repeats “Nevermore” in Poe’s poem?
raven
“Double, double toil and trouble” is chanted by witches in which Shakespeare play?
Macbeth
Who is the author of The Shining, Carrie, and It?
Stephen King
This Emily Dickinson poem begins, “Because I could not stop for Death—”.
Because I could not stop for Death
This vampire novel by Bram Stoker introduced Count Dracula to the world.
Dracula
“The Masque of the Red Death” symbolizes this unavoidable human truth.
death
The ghost of this character tells Hamlet to seek revenge.
Hamlet’s father (King Hamlet)
In Neil Gaiman’s Coraline, what do the Other Mother’s eyes look like?
buttons
In Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the potion transforms Jekyll into whom?
Mr. Hyde
In The Picture of Dorian Gray, what object grows older while its owner remains young?
portrait/painting
In The Fall of the House of Usher, what happens to the mansion at the end?
It collapses/sinks into the tarn
In The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Ichabod Crane is chased by which spooky figure?
Headless Horseman
This Ray Bradbury novel features a sinister traveling carnival.
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Which 19th-century writer’s “sleepy” story takes place in a haunted New York village?
Washington Irving
This short story by Edgar Allan Poe features a man haunted by the sound of a beating heart.
The Tell-Tale Heart
Poe’s Annabel Lee is a poem about this enduring emotion that even death cannot destroy.
What is love
The “madwoman in the attic” appears in this Charlotte Brontë novel.
Jane Eyre
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier begins with which haunting line?
“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.”
The Monkey’s Paw warns readers to be careful about what?
What you wish for
This term describes gloomy, decaying settings and supernatural elements common in 18th–19th century horror fiction.
Gothic literature
What literary device does Poe often use to explore guilt and madness in his characters?
unreliable narration
This American short story by Shirley Jackson shocked readers with its depiction of a deadly village tradition.
The Lottery
In Pet Sematary, what terrifying truth do the characters discover about the burial ground?
things buried there (the ground) come back to life
In Wuthering Heights, what supernatural event happens to Mr. Lockwood at the window?
He’s grabbed by the ghostly hand of Catherine Earnshaw