Scaredy-Cats
This is the best kitty in the world, and her unofficial birthday is Halloween.
Who is Squishy?
Ag-gressive vampires and werewolves alike may be killed by this metal, in bullets, blades, or even letter openers!
What is silver?
German for "noisy ghost," this sort of spirit is known for throwing things and pinching people.
What is a poltergeist?
This popular Halloween movie stars Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy, and Sarah Jessica Parker as sister witches on a quest for immortality.
What is Hocus Pocus?
Morticia, Gomez, Wednesday, Pugsley and Lurch competing on a popular game show.
What is the Addams Family Feud?
This plant produces similar effects in cats as psychoactive drugs in humans.
What is catnip?
This spooky family lived at 1313 Mockingbird Lane.
Who are the Munsters?
Hop away from the Colchester Overpass in Clifton, VA, sometimes referred to as this bridge, the home of an axe-wielding urban legend.
What is Bunny Man?
What is Something Wicked This Way Comes?
Bobby Pickett and the Crypt Keeper's love singing their popular Halloween hit and eating a starchy side dish!
What is The Monster Mash-ed Potatoes?
The largest living cat is Hercules, this kind of feline created from breeding a tiger and a lion. He weighs 922 pounds!
What is a liger?
The earliest jack o' lanterns weren't carved from gourd like pumpkins, but instead these root vegetables.
What are turnips and/or potatoes?
This West Virginia cryptid hung around Point Pleasant from November 1966 to December 1967.
What is the Mothman?
This married pair of paranormal investigators have inspired James Wan's recent Conjuring series.
Who are Ed and Lorraine Warren?
Of two popular Sesame Street roommates, one was also the 4th Ghostbuster.
Who are Bert & Ernie Hudson?
An apocryphal anecdote published in 1893 claimed this influential mathematician invented the pet door - this is untrue, but the story contained no malus!
Who is Isaac Newton?
This famous, mysterious magician died on Halloween night in 1926 after three punches to the stomach.
Who is Harry Houdini?
One of the more contemporary horror icons, this stylish but gaunt monster first came to life on the internet.
Who is Slender Man?
On October 31, 1938, this man expressed deep regret for shocking the nation with his radio broadcast the night before.
Who is Orson Welles?
This band wrote "The Boys are Back in Town" before one member was tried for murdering her father and stepmother in 1892.
Who is Thin Lizzie Borden?
Polydactyl cats - cats with six toes - are sometimes referred to as this straightforward author's cats, after he was gifted a white six-toed cat from a ship captain.
What are Hemingway cats?
This popular modern game company was founded in 1889, ten years before famous vampire novel Dracula was published.
What is Nintendo?
I couldn't bee-lieve it when I heard this popular supernatural slasher was getting a new sequel written by Jordan Peele.
Who is Candyman?
This Halloween-born Romantic was so beloved by his horror-writing wife that she supposedly kept his heart wrapped in poetry on her desk after his death in 1821.
Who is John Keats?
These insects make their tunnels in trees and buildings, and also make popular scary movies like Halloween and The Thing.
What are John Carpenter ants?
Aside from "litter," this is another term for a group of kittens.
What is a kindle?
This First Lady was also the First to decorate the White House for Halloween in 1958.
Who is Mamie Eisenhower?
This London urban legend originally appeared as mid-19th century penny dreadfuls before taking a musical turn in 1979.
Who is Sweeney Todd?
Serial killers often inspire movie monsters, including this ghoulish body snatcher who inspired the films Psycho, The Silence of the Lambs, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Who is Ed Gein?
Linus from Peanuts would stay up all night on Halloween waiting for this former king of Macedonia to rise from his patch.
What is Alexander the Great Pumpkin?