Horror Movies: The Sequel
Monster Music
Lethal Literature
Spooky Science
Frightening Folklore
100

Tom Cruise, Kirsten Dunst, and Brad Pitt co-star in this 1994 horror movie

Interview with the Vampire

100

Rockwell’s 1984 song “Somebody’s Watching Me” features this pop singer on the chorus

Michael Jackson

100

This headless figure terrorizes Ichabod Crane in Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Headless Horseman

100

This Egyptian monster is created by wrapping a deceased body in linen strips before burial

Mummy

100

Wearing these, was said to let people blend in with and scare away wandering spirits and ghosts on Halloween night

Costumes

200

This slasher icon stalks camp counselors at Camp Crystal Lake (though his mother started the franchise’s killing spree)

Jason Voorhees

200

Singer-songwriter Warren Zevon penned this popular Halloween song

"Werewolves of London"

200

In Edgar Allan Poe's famous poem, this bird perches above a chamber door and repeatedly utters the word "Nevermore"

Raven

200

This is the deadliest spider in the world

The funnel web spider

200

This is the only metal or material that can kill a werewolf

Silver

300

In The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal Lecter famously pairs human liver with fava beans and this type of Italian wine

Chianti

300

In the 1984 hit song “Ghostbusters”, the track famously asks this question

"Who you gonna call?"

300

Edward Cullen is a vampire in this popular book series, later turned into a blockbuster movie success

Twilight

300

This is the only mammal that can fly

A bat

300

This specific nocturnal mammal is heavily associated with Halloween because of an old superstition that seeing one meant a witch was nearby

Black cat

400

Actor Michael J. Fox plays a high schooler with a monstrous secret in this 1985 movie

Teen Wolf

400

During the possession scene in the 1988 movie “Beetlejuice," this Harry Belafonte song is played

Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)

400

This is the name of Harry Potter’s first racing broom

Nimbus 2000

400

This is the number of bones in the average human skeleton

206

400

This phrase refers to the traditional, medieval practice of going door-to-door praying for the dead in exchange for "soul cakes," which inspired modern trick-or-treating

Souling

500

The fictional town of Derry, Maine, is the primary setting for this terrifying clown-centric story

It

500

This 1962 novelty song by Bobby “Boris” Pickett describes a late-night laboratory dance party that “caught on in a flash”

"Monster Mash"

500

In this famous William Shakespear play comes the quote “Double, double toil and trouble”

Macbeth

500

On average, there are this many full moons each year

12

500

This nefarious glance or glare causes misfortune for the person on the receiving end

Evil eye