Frankenstein
E.A Poe
H.P Lovecraft
Stephen King
Challenges!
100

What is the full name of the scientist who creates the creature in Frankenstein?

Victor Frankenstein

100

What poem by Poe features a mysterious bird repeating the word “Nevermore”?

The Raven

100

What branch of horror did H.P Lovecraft pioneer? 

Cosmic Horror

100

What is the title of Stephen King’s famous novel about a haunted hotel?


The Shining 

100

Who is the author is Dracula?

Bram Stoker

200

How many narrators are in the novel? 

Three; Victor, the Creature, and Walton

200

In which Poe short story does the narrator insist on his sanity while describing a murder?

The Tell Tale Heart

200

What fictional New England town is the primary setting for many of Lovecraft’s stories, including The Shadow Over Innsmouth?

Arkham

200

What is the profession of the main character, Paul Sheldon, in Misery?

Writer

200

In Robert Louis Stevenson’s Jekyll and Hyde, what is the real name of the sinister alter ego?


Edward Hyde

300

What book does the Creature read that most deeply influences his understanding of humanity and injustice?

Paradise Lost

300

Which Poe story centers on a prince who attempts to escape death by sealing himself and his court away from the outside world?

The Masque of Read Death

300

What ancient sea deity is found off the coast of the Pacific in Lovecraft's first mythos story?

Dagon

300

In The Shining, what is the name of the haunted hotel where Jack Torrance and his family stay?

The Overlook

300

Skinwalkers are from what Native American tribe's lore?

Navajo

400

Why does Victor ultimately destroy the female creature he begins to create?

He is worried about them overtaking humanity

400

What disease is believed to have caused the deaths of several important women in Edgar Allan Poe’s life, including his wife Virginia Clemm? 

Tuberculosis

400

What are Lovecraft's two favorite cities? 

Salem

Providence 


400

Which Stephen King novel features a car possessed by a malevolent force that kills its owners?

Christine 

400

In Gillman's The Yellow Wallpaper, what is the narrator's husband's name?

John 

500

What natural setting frames both the beginning and end of the novel? 


North Pole

500

Under what unusual circumstances did Edgar Allan Poe die, and what condition was he found in when discovered in Baltimore?


He was found delirious and semi-conscious in Baltimore, wearing someone else’s clothes, and died a few days later without a clear explanation for his condition.




500

What cosmic entity often depicted as a giant tentacled being sleeping beneath the sea? Where does he live?

Cthulhu

R'lyeh

500

What pseudonym did Stephen King use to publish several novels, including The Running Man?

Richard Bauchman

500

This Ancient Greek story is written by Plato and serves as an inspiration for Jekyll and Hyde? 

The Ring of Gyges