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category Banks, L.A. category Barker, Clive
category Feehan, Christine category Hamilton, Laurell K
category Harris, Charlaine category Kenyon, Sherrilyn
category Lovecraft, H. P. category McCammon, Robert
category Meyer, Stephenie category Perry, S.D.
category Pike, Christopher category Poe, Edgar Allan
category Rice, Anne category Shan, Darren
category Shelley, Mary category Stephen King
category Stoker, Bram category Ward, J.R.
Editors: agony, MotherGoose, LeoDaVinci, looney_tunes Quiz Search:
1 Early Vampire Literature
A tribute to the great romantic poets, the masters of horror literature, and even the workmanlike hacks who mined the spirit of the undead to produce unforgettable characters and images.
Tough
10 Q
stuthehistoryguy
Jan 30 07
948 plays
2 It Was a Dark and Stormy Night
Authors including Edward Bulwer-Lytton and Snoopy ("Peanuts" comic strip) used this line to open their stories. But this quiz is about authors whose horror stories give us that eerie, queasy feeling. Let's take a look.
Easy
10 Q
CmdrK
Nov 17 12
525 plays
3 Boo! Literary Monsters
Descriptions of some classic monsters in literature. You name the book or author!
Average
10 Q
john_sunseri
Oct 30 09
1065 plays
4 You'll Never Guess What....
I just downloaded '50 Classic Horror Books' to my tablet and something went wrong. The index is all messed up. I ended up with a list of authors and a list of titles. Help me match up the authors with their works.
Easy
10 Q
suzi_greer
Jan 03 13
519 plays
5 Everything Gothic
What constitutes a Gothic novel? Included in this quiz are a list of characters from a Gothic novel. Find the Gothic novel that belongs to the characters mentioned.
Average
10 Q
pennie1478
May 24 09
456 plays
6 In Love With the Darkness
The genre of horror fiction has seen plenty of famous relationships between humans and creatures of the night. For each book, can you name the character who falls in love with the darkness?
Tough
10 Q
eyhung
Jun 15 13
120 plays
7 Vampires in Literature
How do you kill a vampire? That depends what book you are reading! Here are ten books featuring vampires with different attributes, powers and weaknesses. Be warned, there are definitely spoilers.
Average
10 Q
jondalah
Dec 22 09
618 plays
8 Horrifying Short Stories
Brevity may be the soul of wit, but it can also make for terror!
Difficult
10 Q
astorian
Sep 16 03
2544 plays
9 Witches and Vampires and Werewolves, oh my!
This quiz is about different books that contain either witches, vampires or werewolves.
Difficult
10 Q
morrigan
Feb 07 04
654 plays
This is category 9619
Last Updated Aug 06 13 2:57 AM

Some sample questions from this category:

* In which Stephen King story does the narrator gradually cut himself apart and eat himself?
* In what famed story does a couple use magic first to resurrect their dead son, and then to send him away?
* Which theme is common to Edgar Allan Poe's "Cask of Amontillado" and "The Fall of the House of Usher"?
* 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?
* 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?


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