Writers of Woe & Misery
Carrie
The Shining
Pet Cemetery
Christine
Stephen King
There are thirteen movies in this series about masked killer Michael Meyers spreading terror 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.
This nursery rhyme refers to the 1665 Great Plague of London and the rashes that covered the afflicted.
Ring Around the Rosie
Cry ________ Pack
Wolf
On Halloween night, 1938, this man interrupted a live CBS radio music program to announce "Martians have invaded New Jersey!"
Orson Wells (War of the Worlds)
Frankenstein
Valperga
The Last Man
Mathilda
Mary Shelley
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 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 is likely to do with King Charles I lowering the volume, but not the price, of 1/2 and 1/4 pints, known as jacks and gills, when his tax increase on liquid measures was rejected.
Jack and Jill
Jump _______ Tactics
He was appointed Prime Minister of Italy on Halloween, 1922, and after pulling off a coup d'etat in 1925, began the Fascist dictatorship that would inspire Hitler.
Benito Mussolini
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Raven
Edgar Allan Poe
Carrie Fisher auditioned for Star Wars and this classic horror movie at the same time as the directors were holding joint auditions.
Carrie
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.
This song originated over 400 years ago in the routine of female prisoners in Wakefield, England, which included exercising around a mulberry tree.
Here We Go 'Round the Mulberry Bush
Capital _______ Mystery
Murder
On Halloween, 1517, this previously unknown German monk and scholar nailed his 95 theses to the door of the Wittenberg castle church.
Martin Luther
The Witching Hour
Prince Lestat
Interview With a Vampire
The Feast of all Saints
Anne Rice
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 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.
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
Black _______ Warrant
After the death of sculptor Gutzon Borglum, and with the US inching towards war, on Halloween day of 1941 this half-finished national monument was declared done.
Mount Rushmore
The Bad Place
Watchers
Lightning
Strange Highways
Dean Koontz
This 1964 horror film about the last man on earth in a post-apocalyptic world was based on the 1954 novel I am Legend and starred Vincent Price.
The Last Man On Earth
1. Hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
2. The decorative elements in the Sedlec Ossuary in the Czech Republic are made entirely of human bone.
3. In the 18th century, safety coffins 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 rhyme is 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
What it lacked in population it made up for in silver mines and the U.S. Congress admitted this California neighbor as the 36th state on Halloween, 1864.
Nevada
The Call of Cthulhu
The Shadow Over Innsmouth
The Whisperer in Darkness
The Dunwich Horror
HP Lovecraft
In this sci-fi horror movie, Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a Vietnam vet in a world targeted by the ultimate alien predator set on adding a human head to his trophy wall.
Predator
1. A spider's blood is clear.
2. Hidden Valley Ranch launched a special, limited edition Candy Corn Ranch dressing in September.
3. Human cells make up 43% of the body's total cell count the remaining 57% are bacteria, viruses and fungi.
Candy Corn Ranch is, fortunately, not a real thing
One of the theories behind this nursery rhyme stems from the ancient belief that children who died in infancy could be resurrected if placed in a tree.
Rock-a-Bye Baby
Fresh _______ Switch
Kill
On Halloween, 1984, this Prime Minister of India was shot to death by her own body guards.
Indira Gandhi