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Horror Works
YGK These Works of Horror Fiction
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Author of Interview with the Vampire | Anne Rice |
| Protagonist of Interview with the Vampire who is an American planter turned into a vampire | Louis de Pointe du Lac |
| Vampire who turns Louis de Pointe du Lac into a vampire | Lestat de Lioncourt |
| Little girl who is turned into a vampire, keeping her perpetually young | Claudia |
| City where Louis and Claudia flee to in Europe and where Claudia is killed by a coven | Paris |
| Post-Dracula vampire tropes solidified by Interview with the Vampire | Sunlight incinerates them / they are immortal and un-aging |
| Film first depicting that sunlight incinerates vampires | Nosferatu |
| Author of the 1986 novel It | Stephen King |
| The interdimensional creature that terrorizes Derry, Maine | It |
| The most common form in which "It" manifests | Pennywise the Dancing Clown |
| The group of outcast classmates who fight "It" in the novel | The Losers Club |
| The number of years later the Losers Club reunites to fight "It" again | 27 years |
| Interpretation of "It" by critics | A manifestation of America’s cultural evils |
| Actor who starred as Pennywise the Clown in the 1990 miniseries adaptation | Tim Curry |
| Author of “The Fall of the House of Usher” | Edgar Allan Poe |
| Style of literature Poe used in “The Fall of the House of Usher” | Gothic literature |
| Character in “Usher” who believes the mansion may be alive | Roderick Usher |
| Roderick's sister who is mistakenly buried alive | Madeline |
| What happens to the house at the end of the story | It cracks in two and sinks into the waters |
| Author of “The Yellow Wallpaper” | Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
| Type of therapy the wife in “The Yellow Wallpaper” undergoes | Rest cure |
| Item the narrator becomes fixated on in her room | Yellow wallpaper |
| Figure the narrator believes is inside the wallpaper | A shadowy woman |
| Author of Dracula | Bram Stoker |
| Historical ruler whose name Stoker borrowed for his character | Vlad the Impaler |
| Style of narration in Dracula (told via journals/letters) | Epistolary |
| Character who travels to Transylvania to meet the Count | Jonathan Harker |
| Character who helps kill Dracula by using a bowie knife | Quincey Morris |
| Author of The Turn of the Screw | Henry James |
| Protagonist of the novella | A governess |
| Two children the governess is hired to raise | Miles and Flora |
| Deceased servant the governess believes is haunting the estate | Peter Quint |
| Novel that was a key inspiration for The Turn of the Screw | Jane Eyre |
| Author of “The Monkey’s Paw” | W. W. Jacobs |
| Object used to make wishes in “The Monkey’s Paw” | A mummified monkey paw |
| Character who brings the monkey's paw to the White family | Morris (a soldier) |
| The ironic result of the first wish for money | Their son dies in a work accident |
| Author of “The Call of Cthulhu” | H. P. Lovecraft |
| Type of geometry describing the uncharted island city in the story | Non-Euclidean geometry |
| Genre of horror associated with Lovecraft's work | Cosmic horror |
| Author of The Haunting of Hill House | Shirley Jackson |
| Character who is the target of most of the supernatural events in Hill House | Eleanor Vance |
| How Eleanor Vance dies at the end of the novel | She deliberately drives her car into a tree |
| Author of Something Wicked This Way Comes | Ray Bradbury |
| Two teenagers who discover the nature of Mr. Dark's carnival | Jim and Will |
| Object that can age or de-age riders at the carnival | The carousel |
| Emotion that weakens the carnival and Mr. Dark | Laughter (or joy/smiles) |
| Play from which Bradbury took the novel's title | Macbeth |
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