A new series. Each quiz focuses on a specific genre with the questions in date order – a kind of potted history genre by genre.
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In Plutarch’s writings the spirit of the murdered Damon is described. What was Damon?
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A murderer
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A child
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Marie de France wrote 12 stories that introduced the character of which horror figure?
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Werewolf
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Vampire
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Finish the title of Walpole’s novel which began the gothic tradition: The — of Otranto.
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Castle
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Forest
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Which female author wrote A Sicilian Romance, The Mysteries of Udolpho and The Italian?
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Ann Radcliffe
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Maria Edgeworth
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Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is born in Naples but where does he create his monster?
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Bavaria
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Darmstadt
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What is the figure of horror in Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow?
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Headless horseman
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Blinded bride
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Jane C Loudon introduced the world to which reanimated horror figure?
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The Mummy
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Zombies
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Who is the narrator of Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher?
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Unnamed
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Roderick
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Which famous Victorian horror story begins with a chapter called The Story of the Door?
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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The Turn of the Screw
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Which novella begins, ‘The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses…’
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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The Invisible Man
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Who is stalked and killed by Dracula in Bram Stoker’s classic horror story?
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Lucy
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Mina
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Which horror story begins on Christmas Eve with Douglas reading a manuscript by a dead governess?
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The Turn of the Screw
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The Woman in White
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What was Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu based on?
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A poem
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A myth
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Which novel by Richard Matheson spawned the zombie-vampire genre that followed?
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I Am Legend
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A Stir of Echoes
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What is the name of the doomed guest at Bates’ Motel in Bloch’s Psycho?
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Mary Crane
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Sam Lewis
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What is the name of the hotel of nightmares in King’s The Shining?
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The Outlook
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The Boulder
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Which of Harris’ novels introduced the world to Dr Hannibal Lecter?
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Red Dragon
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Silence of the Lambs
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Danielewski’s debut novel House of Leaves is about a house with what weird quality?
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Bigger on the inside than outside
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Made of living trees
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In Malerman’s Birdbox are animals immune to The Problem?
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No
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Yes
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Finish the title of Davidson’s bestselling horror novel: The Boatman’s —
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Daughter
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Child
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