Classic Horror Films
This 1931 film starring Bela Lugosi introduced the iconic line, “I never drink… wine.”
What is Dracula?
The infamous witch trials of 1692 took place in this Massachusetts village.
What is Salem?
This black-feathered bird’s croak is a bad omen in many cultures.
What is a raven?
This London landmark is said to be haunted by Anne Boleyn and others executed within its walls.
What is the Tower of London?
In Mexico, families decorate altars with marigolds and sugar skulls to welcome back their loved ones during this colorful festival.
What is Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead)?
The eerie music of this 1978 film helped make Michael Myers one of cinema’s most chilling killers.
What is Halloween?
The word “witch” derives from this Old English word meaning “wise woman.”
What is wicce?
These sleek black animals are often seen as witches’ familiars — and crossing paths with one is still said to bring bad luck.
What are black cats?
The Amityville haunting was said to have occurred in this U.S. state.
What is New York?
In Ireland and Scotland, people once lit giant bonfires on Halloween night and people believed the flames could protect them from
What are evil spirits (or ghosts)?
In The Exorcist, the demon claims to be this ancient Mesopotamian entity
Pazuzu
Walpurgisnacht, or the “witches’ sabbath,” is celebrated on the eve of this spring date.
What is April 30th?
This ghostly figure is said to appear if you chant her name three times into a mirror — a sleepover dare gone terribly wrong.
Who is Bloody Mary?
This 19th-century Transylvanian ruler inspired Bram Stoker’s Dracula — though the real man was feared for impaling his enemies, not drinking their blood.
Who is Vlad the Impaler
On All Hallows’ Eve in Ireland, people traditionally lit these to ward off spirits — long before pumpkins.
What are turnips?
This 1960 Hitchcock classic shocked audiences with a shower scene that used chocolate syrup for blood.
What is Psycho?
The 15th-century book Malleus Maleficarum served as a manual for doing this.
What is identifying and prosecuting witches?
In folklore, this black dog or ghostly hound with burning eyes haunts lonely roads in the English countryside.
What is the Black Shuck?
Visitors to this famous Paris landmark of bones claim to feel cold hands brushing past them among the skull-lined tunnels.
What are the Catacombs of Paris?
he Celtic festival that inspired Halloween marked the end of harvest and the time when the spirit world was said to be closest to ours.
What is Samhain?
The 1999 found footage horror film set in Maryland woods, started as an internet hoax
What is the Blair Witch Project
In Slavic folklore, this witch-like figure lives in a hut standing on chicken legs and can be both a helper and a villain to those who seek her out.
Who is Baba Yaga?
Neither demon nor god, this silent worker wields a farmer’s tool for a darker harvest
Who is the Grim Reaper?
In 1520, this mass execution of Swedish nobles turned Stockholm’s main square into a river of blood — and legend says their ghosts still roam the old town at night.
What is the Stockholm Bloodbath?
In Sweden, the dead are said to find their way home by the glow of thousands of graveyard candles lit on this November night that blends old pagan fire customs with Christian remembrance.
What is Alla helgons dag