Writers of Woe & Misery
Carrie
The Shining
Pet Cemetery
Christine
Stephen King
This series of horror movies about masked killer Michael Meyers, and staring Jamie Lee Curtis, is one of the most popular to binge-watch on Halloween.
Halloween
1. A chicken named Mike in Colorado lived 18 months after having its head chopped off.
2. Your odds of being struck by lightening are over 500% greater the second time.
3. The average person sheds more than 40 pounds of skin in their lifetime.
While the odds of being struck by lightening are higher in certain locations and under certain conditions, your personal odds of being struck do not change.
The most popular contention is that this widely popular nursery rhyme refers to the 1665 Great Plague of London with "the rosie" referring to the rash that covered the afflicted.
Ring Around the Rosie
Spider ________ Stake
Plant
Frankenstein
Valperga
The Last Man
Mathilda
Mary Shelley
This series of horror films about Chucky, a rampant killer who transfers his soul into a doll, is no child's play.
Child's Play
1. The venom of the the 2" long Japanese giant hornet is so toxic it can melt human flesh.
2. A person from a small town might cross paths with as many as 16 murderers during their lifetime.
3. Peeing on a jellyfish sting will help lessen the pain.
Due to certain chemical interactions, urine may actually cause any tentacles remaining attached to the body to sting the victim again. Saltwater is recommended to neutralize a sting instead.
This nursery rhyme, which sounds like a request for gardening advice, is actually a recounting of the homicidal nature of Queen Mary I of England, whose reign was marked by the execution of hundreds of Protestants.
Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary
Ghost ________ Hall
Town
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Raven
Edgar Allan Poe
This 1964 horror film about the last man on earth in a post-apocalyptic world was directed by Ubaldo Ragona and starred Vincent Price.
The Last Man On Earth
1. On average, we eat eight spiders a year in our sleep.
2. People have a 6.7% greater chance of dying on their birthday than on any other day of the year.
2. Due to the complications of search and retrieval above 26,000 feet, the bodies of most climbers that die on Mount Everest remain there forever.
According to the National Sleep Foundation, not only is there zero data to support this old wives' tale, but if a spider even were inclined to crawl into a predator's mouth, sleeping people move around and make enough noise to ward them off.
According to historian and former governor of England’s Wakefield Prison, R. S. Duncan, this song originated over 400 years ago in the routine of their female prisoners which included exercising around a mulberry tree.
Here We Go 'Round the Mulberry Bush
Cry ________ Pack
Wolf
The Witching Hour
Prince Lestat
Interview With a Vampire
The Feast of all Saints
Anne Rice
In this original 1979 science fiction horror movie starring Sigourney Weaver, her space crew discovers the hive colony of an unknown alien.
Alien
1. The current world population of about 7.7 Billion people is a mere 7% of the total 108 Billion humans that have been born on earth.
2. A "rat king" is the phenomena wherein a group of rats become intertwined and bound together by their tails.
3. Having great faith in the continuing advancement of medicine, on his death, Walt Disney had his body cryogenically frozen.
When Walt Disney died from lung cancer complications in 1966, his body was cremated and interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California.
It is believed that this nursery rhyme is likely to do with King Charles I lowering the volume (but not the price) of half- and quarter- pints, known as jacks and gills, when Parliament rejected his increased tax on liquid measures.
Jack and Jill
Death ________ Snake
Rattle
The Call of Cthulhu
The Shadow Over Innsmouth
The Whisperer in Darkness
The Dunwich Horror
HP Lovecraft
In this 1945 horror genre classic, an architect senses impending doom as his recurring dream turns into reality in the dead of night at an ill-fated country house.
Dead of Night
1. Hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
2. When there was no longer room for parishioners in the cemeteries, a church in the Czech Republic made decorations entirely of human bone.
3. "Safety coffins," developed in the 18th century, allowed a mistakenly buried person to alert those above ground that they weren't, in fact, dead.
After death, dehydration causes the skin and other soft tissues to shrink, giving the illusion that hair and fingernails have lengthened.
This nursery rhyme tells the story of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, who was a favorite of the ladies of the court, but not their husbands, which may be why he "ran away when the boys came out to play."
Georgie Porgie
Dark ________ Power
Horse