The Boogeyman
The man who visits a psychiatrist to tell the terrifying story of how his children died.
Who is Lester Billings?
The American horror writer who wrote the screenplay for the 1982 film Creepshow and appears in the film as the farmer Jordy Verrill.
Who is Stephen King?
The 1980 film about a haunted hotel based on a novel by Stephen King.
What is The Shining?
Stephen King’s lowest level of horror, which focuses on shocking or disgusting imagery such as blood and gore.
What is the gross-out?
The famous 1950s horror comic series that inspired many later horror writers, including Stephen King.
What is Tales from the Crypt?
The creature Lester Billings believes hides in his children’s room and kills them.
What is the Boogeyman?
The first segment of the film, in which a murdered father returns from the grave demanding his cake.
What is Father’s Day?
The 1976 film about a bullied girl with telekinetic powers, the first movie based on a Stephen King novel.
What is Carrie?
Stephen King’s middle level of horror, which shows something unnatural or monstrous, such as the dead walking.
What is the horror?
The short comic story about a boy and his invisible friend used as the introduction to the course.
What is Grounds… for Horror!?
The psychiatrist Lester Billings goes to see at the beginning of the story.
Who is Dr. Harper?
The segment in which a lonely farmer finds a meteor that infects his body with strange plants.
What is The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill?
The 2017 film featuring the terrifying clown Pennywise.
What is It?
Stephen King’s highest level of fear, which works mainly through suggestion and the reader’s imagination.
What is the terror?
The invisible friend who protects the boy from his cruel stepfather in the story.
Who is Hozir?
The wife of Lester Billings and the mother of the three children in the story.
Who is Rita?
The segment in which a man buries two lovers up to their necks on the beach as revenge.
What is Something to Tide You Over?
The 1983 film based on a Stephen King novel about a murderous car.
What is Christine?
The amusement park attraction King compares horror movies to in “Why We Crave Horror Movies.”
What is a roller coaster?
The violent kitchen machine that kills the stepfather at the end of the story.
What is a meat grinder?
The place in the children’s bedroom that becomes the central symbol of fear in the story.
What is the closet?
The type of horror film that combines several separate stories into one movie.
What is an anthology film?
The 1990 film about writer Paul Sheldon, who is held captive by his “number one fan.”
What is Misery?
The animals King compares our dangerous emotions to, which must be fed so they do not escape.
What are alligators?
The creepy narrator who introduces the stories in Tales from the Crypt.
Who is the Crypt-Keeper?