Monster Music
This song is a graveyard smash. Some say that it'll also catch on in a flash.
What is the Monster Mash by Bobby “Boris” Pickett?
Before pumpkins became the go-to, Jack-o'-lanterns used to be carved out of this root vegetable.
What are turnips?
The Sanderson sisters are a trio of wicked witches in this movie which was originally a box office bomb.
What is Hocus Pocus?
Folks frequently mix up the names of the two main characters from this 1818 novel by Mary Shelley.
What is Frankenstein?
Don't let the music fool you, it is best to turn the other way if you see this naked man playing a violin in the woods.
What is Näcken?
These calcium creepers will sure send shivers down your spine when they shock your soul and seal your doom tonight.
What is Spooky, Scary Skeletons by Andrew Gold?
Due to a the usage of fake news bulletins during a radio broadcast of this novel by H. G. Wells, people in 1938 thought that a real Martian invasion was occurring in New Jersey.
What is "The War of the Worlds"?
These two people share the same name. One is a groovy spy who shags people, the other is this silent slasher from John Carpenter's 1978 classic horror movie.
Who is Michael Myers?
The ghost of a King killed by his own brother plays a central role in this Shakespearean play.
What is Hamlet?
These little creatures may or may not prevent logging equipment from working properly.
What are vätten?
Something strange is in this neighborhood. Not least of all, an invisible man sleeping in your bed.
What is Ghostbusters by Ray Parker Jr.?
Modern day Halloween is thought to have been greatly influenced by this Gaelic festival.
What is Samhain? (Bonus points for proper pronunciation.)
This creature steals the eyes of children and replaces them with buttons in Henry Selick's 2009 stop-motion motion picture.
What is the Other Mother (double points for the other name.)
Carl Jung held that the duality of man was the central cause of internal tension in the psyche. This concept was previously explored in this 1886 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson
What is The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?
The common word for this unpleasant nightly phenomenon derives from the name of a maleficent spirit in Swedish folklore: Maran.
What is "Nightmare"?
A werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand? Kid Rock must've seen that when we was walking through SoHo in the rain.
What is Werewolves of London by Warren Zevon?
Rather than enter a plea, Giles Corey only said these two words as he was slowly crushed to death during the Salem witch trails.
What is "more weight"?
This is the story of the Sweet Transvestite from Transsexual Transylvania.
What is the Rocky Horror Picture Show?
The Whitby Abbey in North Yorkshire, England was a key inspiration for the setting of this 1897 novel.
What is Dracula?
The Codex Gigas, also called this, is the largest illuminated Medieval Manuscript in the world, and it is on display at Kungliga biblioteket.
What is the Devil's Bible?
If you do not fear this fateful hooded figure, you can take my hand and we can fly.
What is (Don’t Fear) The Reaper by Blue Öyster Cult?
Testimony from this specter partially resulted in the conviction of a man for murdering his wife in ______ County, West Virginia.
What is the Greenbrier Ghost?
Although Pennywise takes the body of a dancing clown, he is really a cosmic being of incomprehensible form, with these glowing orbs that drive people to insanity.
What are the Deadlights?
This 1953 play by Arthur Miller retells the story of the Salem Witch Trials, which he felt echoed the political atmosphere of McCarthyism and the Red Scare of the 1950s.
What is The Crucible?
This lake cryptid from Jämtland was given legal protection from hunting in 1986.
What is Storsjöodjuret?