This writer shares his last name with a family of modern, fictitious children.
Who is Charles Baudelaire?
100
A type of wine featured prominently in the story.
What is Amontillado?
100
The writer most associated with "doom and gloom," he died on a Baltimore street in 1849, two years after his wife/cousin.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
100
Proper and dignified behavior
What is decorum?
100
This story discusses how a man goes insane from the continuous beating of a heart.
What is The Tell-Tale Heart?
200
This writer is the author of The Castle of Otranto (1765), one of the first dark books written.
Who is Horace Walpole?
200
The man who disappears at the end of the story.
Who is Fortunato?
200
The descendant of a Salem judge, this writer was mourned by Herman Melville after his death in 1864.
Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne?
200
Having a bizarre, fantastic appearance
What is grotesque?
200
This Poe poem is immortalized by a picture on his tombstone.
What is "The Raven"?
300
The original name for this writers famous 1897 novel was Wampyr. Extra Credit-Wampyr means this in English.
Who is Bram Stoker? What is vampire?
300
The place where the two men search for the Amontillado.
What are the catacombs?
300
This writer, named after the first President of the United States was one of the first well known American writers.
Who is Washington Irving?
300
Characterized by complicated decorations
What is arabesque?
300
Loosely based off of the Bubonic Plague, this story discusses Poe's favorite theme, death to all.
What is The Masque of the Red Death?
400
These two characters, from a novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, are the epitome of a "split personality."
Who are Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?
400
The definition of "In pace requiescat"
What is "Rest in peace"?
400
Often found on the AP Exam, this twentieth century writer is notorious for his abnormally long sentences.
Who is William Faulkner?
400
This story, written in 1833, won Poe a needed $50 in a contest.
What is M.S. Found in a Bottle?
500
The name of British writer Mary Shelley's most famous novel and the year it was published.
What is Frankenstein (1818)
500
This man cannot tell Amontillado from Sherry.
Who is Luchresi?
500
This Southern Gothic writer was able to write numerous novel and short stories such as Wise Blood and The Habit of Being:Letters all while suffering from a deadly disease.
Who is Flannery O'Connor?
500
Angels of the highest rank
What are Seraphs?
500
This story is considered the first detective story ever to be written.