Modern Spooks
Horror Literature
Horror Tropes (With Video Examples)
Trick or Treats
What We Have Learned So Far
200

This child-friendly series stars an energetic Dracula and his daughter running a recluse for the various creatures of the night.

What is Hotel Transylvania? 

200

Now you see me, now you don't! This novel starts a man named Griffin who invents a potion that turns him into the titular, unseeable character.

What is The Invisible Man?

200

This common trope gets the heart racing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiUqoG0kNR8  

What is a jump scare?

200

While it may or may not come with almonds, this chocolate bar has its own amusement park.

What are Hersey's?

200
What all of you need to write to get into college.

What is a College/Personal Essay?

400

A Disney classic, this movie's witchy antagonists (the Sanderson Sisters) terrorize the small town of Salem. Their likeness has had the chokehold on Spirit Halloween for years.

What is Hocus Pocus?

400

You'll float too if you encounter a dancing clown in a storm drain in this classic.

What is It?

400

This term refers to the building of tension in the story, usually paid off by a jump scare.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Du_AC3iKTM0

What is suspense?

400

Although the name of this candy bar sounds like the name of the famous baseball player, Babe Ruth, the Curtiss Candy Company claimed that it was named after President Grover Cleveland's daughter, Ruth Cleveland

What are Baby Ruths?

400

This speech teachers us that the lucky owe a debt to the unlucky.

What is Don't Eat Fortune's Cookie?

600

No no no no no. We were having a good time until these terrifying memes popped up! Stemming from a film where a magical wish turns into an existential horror as one man discovers the difference between a love story and a romance.

What is Obsession?

600

This horror classic redefined an entire understanding of this supernatural spook, complete with weaknesses to garlic and holy iconography. Interestingly enough, its titular antagonist takes a backseat to the school teacher, doctor, businessman, and professor who work together to thwart him.

What is Dracula?

600

Blood, blood, and more blood. This word relates to the use of blood and violence to illicit scares.

What is gore?

600

How long does it take to get to the center of this confection on a stick? The world may never know.

What are Tootsie Roll Pops

600

This is the symbol of the rat in Rat Ode.

Who are those people who are seen as undeserving of a narrative. 

800

What is a video game! A miserable pile of code! And this particular pile of code has players traverse Dracula's castle to slay the vampire king once and for all!

What is Castlevania?

800

Contrary to popular belief, the antagonist of this novel is not a split personality of the main character, born from an experimental potion, but rather his dark desires made manifest.

What is the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?

800

Look! The problem is over! Or is it? Leaves the audience with a sense of dread as the curtains close.

Related to Jump Scares

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr-VODLBOVA


What is One Last Scare

800

Don't have a cow, man! This candy was heavily promoted by one Bart Simpson, telling you in no uncertain terms to lay your fingers off it!

What are Butterfingers?

800

Turn out money can by time.

What is Mammon and the Archer?
1000

What started out as an internet creepy pasta has become a best selling horror movie.

What is The Backrooms?

1000

Also known as Prometheus Unbound, this book, written by Mary Shelly in one night, tells the tragic consequences of one doctor's attempt to play God.

What is Frankenstein?

1000

These can be visual or auditory, but the one in this film lets you known that a certain durable zombie man is still kicking.

(1000 points for naming the character/film)

(2000 points for naming the term.) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0Nx8HeGQ_A

What is Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th?

What is a motif?

1000

All for One and One for All is the motto of these heroes who feature in a French historical adventure novel written and published in 1844. Today, they are more known for the candy that most people agree is sorta mid.

What are Three Musketeers?

1000

There's shoes on the table, a blood oath to honor, and a price to pay for selling one of your baby.

What is Blood Brother?