Edgar Allan Poe
Famous Gothic & Halloween Stories
Hotel Transylvania 3
The Black Death History
Gothic & Halloween Symbols
100

This poem by Poe features a mysterious talking bird

What is The Raven?

100

This magical object grants wishes in The Monkey's Paw?

What is a cursed monkey’s paw?

100

The person who Mavis is married to in Hotel Transylvania 3

Who is Johnny?

100

The Black Death is caused by this

What is bubonic plague spread by fleas on rats?

100

This animal is often associated with witches and Halloween

What is a black cat?

200

This is the setting of Poe's The Masque of the Red Death?

What is a castle during a deadly plague?

200

In The Landlady by Roald Dahl, this has happened to the landlady's guests

What is stuffed (taxidermied)?

200

The name of the cruise ship where most of Hotel Transylvania 3 takes place

What is The Monster Cruise Ship?

200

The Black Death devastated Europe around this century

What is the 14th century or the 1300s?

200

The color red in the Masque of the Red Death symbolizes this

What is death or blood?

300

In The Tell-Tale Heart, this drives the narrator to confess

What is the sound of the old man's beating heart?

300

This is the lesson learned in The Monkey's Paw

What is "be careful what you wish for?"

300
This is the villain trying to separate Dracula and Mavis in the movie

Who is Ericka Van Helsing?

300

The Black Death impacted the social order in Europe through these means

What is it ended serfdom and gave workers more power?

300

This Halloween creature is linked to transformation during a full moon

What is a werewolf?

400

This Poe story involves a house that symbolizes decay and madness

What is The Fall of the House of Usher?

400

This is the mood created in the Masque of the Red Death

What is dark, eerie, suspensful with a touch of impending doom?

400

This is the special ability that Ericka Van Helsing uses against the monsters

What is monster-hunting technology?

400

This was one tragic consequence of the Black Death


What is the persecution of Jewish communities?

400

This vegetable was originally carved into Jack-o'-lanterns before pumpkins

What are turnips?

500

The symbolic meaning of the "Red Death" in Poe's story

What is a deadly plague representing inevitable death?

500

The landlady uses this to trap her victims in The Landlady

What is her charm and hospitality?

500
Dracula defeats Ericka Van Helsing at the end of Hotel Transylvania 3 by doing this

What is showing her kindness and convincing her to stop fighting?

500
This was a common but incorrect belief about how the plague was spread

What was that is was caused by poisonous vapors (miasma)?

500

This object in The Monkey's paw symbolizes fate and consequence

What is the monkey's actual paw?