Course Texts
A modern gothic science fiction text featuring a bunch of queer men.
What is Frankenstein?
Who is Mary Shelley?
The name of the narrator's deceased lover in the bird poem.
Who is Lenore?
“‘Prophet!’ said I, ‘thing of evil!--prophet still, if bird or devil!”
What is "The Raven"?
Who is the narrator?
A monster that leaves traces and is never caught.
What is Thesis II: The Monster Always Escapes.
Edgar Allan Poe married this relative when she was 13 years old.
What is his cousin?
A poem about a bird which inspired a football team in Baltimore.
What is "The Raven"?
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
The name of Victor's deceased gay lover.
Who is Henry Clerval? (No, Ben, not Henry Cavill).
"Don't dream it--be it"
What is The Rocky Horror Picture Show?
Who is Frank-N-Furter?
A monster that collapses binaries and boundaries.
What is Thesis III: The Monster as a Harbinger of Category Crisis?
Mary Shelley kept this organ from her deceased husband in her desk.
What is his heart?
An unapologetically queer and timeless midnight movie classic.
What is The Rocky Horror Picture Show?
Who is Jim Sharman?
The name of the Arctic explorer in Frankenstein through whom Victor's story is filtered.
Who is Robert Walton?
"The dominant spirit, however, that haunts this enchanted region, and seems to be commander-in-chief of all the powers of the air, is the apparition of a figure on horseback, without a head.”
What is "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"?
Who is the narrator?
A monster that acts as a scapegoat or representation of a racial, etc. Other.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show only had one successful run in this U.S. city.
What is Los Angeles?
A short story about a New English twink who goes to a rural Dutch town to colonize it.
What is "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"?
Who is Washington Irving?
The name of Frank-N-Furter's first creation.
Who is Eddie?
"'Cursed, cursed creation! Why did I live? Why, in that instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence which you had so wantonly bestowed?'”
What is Frankenstein?
Who is the monster?
What is $19?
A book chapter that describes seven theoretical approaches to analyzing monsters.
What is "Seven Theses"?
Who is Jeffrey Cohen?
The mythological figure from Irish folklore on which the Headless Horseman was based.
What is the Dullahan?
“A new species would bless me as its creator and source ... No father could claim the gratitude of his child so completely as I should deserve theirs.”
What is Frankenstein?
Who is Victor Frankenstein?
A monster that makes you really conflicted and ask yourself do I fear it or do I want to be it?
What is Thesis VI: "Fear of the Monster is Really a Kind of Desire"?
What is/are Australia OR Antarctica OR Deep Ocean?