Authors
The author with Puritan ancestors associated with the Transcendentalist movement
What is Nathaniel Hawthorne?
The story in which de la Poer returns to his ancestral home in Europe and excavates/rebuilds Exham Priory
What is "Rats in the Walls"?
On day one, Shealy noted that horror often allows us to exorcise fear of the Other. Horror is most popular during this associated international event
What is war?
The names of the Deacon and the woman Young Goodman Brown sees talking to the Devil in his "dream"
What are Deacon Gookin and Goody Cloyse?
The supernatural event at the center of Wieland and the place where it occurs
What are spontaneous combustion and The Temple?
The author of "Blood and Thunder" stories who worked as a civil war nurse
What is Louisa May Alcott?
What is "Bewitched" by syphilis?
The book in which King outlines his theory of and thoughts about horror
What is Danse Macabre?
The names of the wards and their manor in The Turn of the Screw
What are Miles, Flora, and Bly?
The novel in which a well, an elm tree, and the spectre of a woman named Alice celebrate the lifting of a curse
What is The House of Seven Gables?
Known as "The Master", the author whose psychological interiority on the page may have been influenced by his brother
What is Henry James?
Set in the blasted heath of Arkham, Massachusetts
What is "The Colour Out of Space"?
In Lovecraft's essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature", the two Ds of horror
What are disestablishment and disintegration?
The name and location of the manor in "Afterward" by Edith Wharton
What are Lyng House and Dorsetshire?
The names of the supposed spectres haunting the manor in Turn of the Screw
What are Peter Quint and Miss Jessel?
The author most associated with Hugo Gernsback's Weird Tales magazine
What is H.P. Lovecraft?
The names of the couple and the ruined man whose ghost haunts their manor
What are Mary and Edward Boyne, and Elwell?
The theoretical lens that most fits analysis of horror, includes research on the uncanny, the abject, and doppelgangers
What is psychoanalysis?
For 200 points each, no maximum, the names of the Carnival's workers in Something Wicked This Way Comes
What are Mr. Dark/Illustrated Man, Mr. Cooger, The Dust Witch, The Skeleton, Tom Fury/The Dwarf?
Daily Double: The title of Alcott's 1877 gothic novel
The full names of the last two authors we read this semester
What are Ray Bradbury and Ira Levin?
In "The Haunter of the Dark", the character type epitomized by Robert Blake: skeptical, aristocratic, and quasi-intellectual
What is the gentleman scholar?
The major theme or themes that distinguish American gothic from other national gothics
What is the search for freedom or identity?
What is the spectre of slavery and genocide of natives?
The names of the apartment and the two elderly inhabitants/neighbors of Guy and Rosemary Woodhouse in Rosemary's Baby
What are The Bramford, Minnie, and Roman Castavet?
The name of Poe's only novel, which Toni Morrison analyzes in Playing in the Dark for its handling of whiteness and the shadow
What is The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym?