Classic Monsters: First (Literary) Appearances
This half-human, half-wolf monster’s first appearance can be traced back to the Epic of Gilgamesh, waaaaaaaay back more than 3000 years ago.
What is a werewolf?
In this classic series, children and teenagers train to become witches and wizards-- and a main trio of them band together to save their school and defeat evil that "must not be named"
What is Harry Potter?
"Specter" is a synonym for this classic spooky figure. You might wear a sheet to dress up like it for trick or treating.
What is a ghost?
"Jasy Jatere," a childlike creature also referred to as the 'God of Siesta' in Paraguay, is said to kidnap children who want to play instead of doing this
What is nap/sleep?
In The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, the main character is pursued by a horseman that is missing a....
Head!
This “monster's" first appearance in Mary Shelley’s 1818 classic saw a doctor reanimate a lifeless body while pushing the boundaries of science and morality.
Who is Frankenstein?
This book series was inspired by a video game and features murderous animal-like puppets at Fazbear's Pizza
What is FNAF (Five Nights at Freddy's)?
This two-word alliteration refers to a dwelling where you might find spirits
haunted house
The story of Botan Doro, a widowed samurai who falls in love with a ghost and is later found dead with her decaying body, originated in what country?
What is Japan?
In one of Edgar Allen Poe's classic horror stories, The Tell-Tale ____, a man is driven mad from hearing the sound of this body part beating beneath the floor
Heart
This monster’s first appearance in Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel saw the characters travel from London to Transylvania and then back to London while fighting against an antagonist that could also turn into a bat.
Who is Dracula?
This creepy book series by R.L. Stein is named for these things that pop up all over the skin on your arms when you're spooked
What is Goosebumps?
This two-word alliteration is a way to categorize a mean female magic-user (or a misunderstood Elphaba)
This Mexican ghost, also known as the "Weeping Woman," is said to steal and drown children who are out after dark
Who is La Llorona?
Dickinson
The 1898 novel "War of the Worlds" by H.G. Wells saw aliens from which planet invade Earth and then almost destroy humanity before ultimately being defeated by germs?
What is Mars?
In the first book of the series, this main character goes searching for her missing older brother and ends up trying out for the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs
Who is Amari (of Amari and the Night Brothers/ the Supernatural Investigations series)
This two-word alliteration is the name of a song about a party filled with non-human creatures
"Monster Mash"
"Jiangshi" are pale, decomposing creatures that are said to suck the "qi," or life force, out of people in what country?
What is China?
Which modern book (turned movie) by Stephen King is quoted here?
"The clown seized his arm.
And George saw the clown’s face change.
What he saw then was terrible enough to make his worst imaginings of the thing in the cellar look like sweet dreams; what he saw destroyed his sanity in one clawing stroke."
"IT"
This monster’s first appearance was in H.G. Well’s 1897 novel of the same name wherein a scientist left medical school to study the science of optics, and then found a way to disappear from sight.
What is The Invisible Man?
This oldie-but-goodie series- started in 1930!- is named for the protagonist, a teenage girl detective that has solved over 100 different mysteries, with the occasional help of her best friends Bess and George
Who/What is Nancy Drew?
Name (and explain) one type of figurative language found in this quote from a poem by Alice Walker:
"Never offer your heart to someone who eats hearts
who finds heartmeat delicious
but not rare
who sucks the juices
drop by drop
and bloody-chinned
grins like a God."
Metaphor, Imagery, Symbolism, Simile...
This is a mythical creature (from Latin America) that is known for drinking the blood of various farm animals
What is El Chupacabra?
Which now-famous monster spoke these words in the original story that brought him to life?
"Hateful day when I received life!...Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemblance."
Frankenstein