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Horrifying Short Stories

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Introduction:
"Brevity may be the soul of wit, but it can also make for terror!"


1. In which Stephen King story does the narrator gradually cut himself apart and eat himself?
    Survivor Type
    Lunch at the Gotham Cafe
    Chattery Teeth
    The Finger


2. In what famed story does a couple use magic first to resurrect their dead son, and then to send him away?
    From Beyond
    Sometimes They Come Back
    The Monkey's Paw
    The Gold Bug


3. Which theme is common to Edgar Allan Poe's "Cask of Amontillado" and "The Fall of the House of Usher"?
    Haunted houses
    Deadly spiders
    Satanic rituals
    Being buried alive


4. Who wrote the horror tale "Lamb to the Slaughter," in which a housewife bludgeons her husband to death with a frozen leg of lamb, then cooks it and serves it to the police?
    Peter Straub
    H.P. Lovecraft
    Roald Dahl
    Flannery O'Connor


5. In the Fredric Brown story "Answer," the most powerful computer in the universe is created, and is asked "Is there a God?" What is the computer's chilling reply?
    No, but there is a Devil.
    Yes, and He has told me to destroy you all.
    Yes, NOW there is a God.
    No, you are alone in the cosmos.


6. What terrible discovery does "Young Goodman Brown" make, in a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne?
    His son has been taken away by demons
    He is dead, and in Hell
    His wife and neighbors are all witches
    His house is occupied by ghosts


7. The prize in Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" is eternal life.
    True
    False


8. Complete the title of Lord Dunsany's most popular (and most gruesome) horror tale: "Two Bottles of ___"
    Answer: (Hot Dog!)


9. Complete the title of an H.P. Lovecraft tale:
"Herbert West: _______ "
    Answer: (It's alive! It's alive!)


10. Who wrote the story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," in which a captured Confederate soldier imagines an elaborate escape and return to his home in the brief seconds before he is hanged?
    Stephen Crane
    Ambrose Bierce
    Mark Twain
    Rudyard Kipling


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