 Our ninth
literary quiz sure attracted some very close calls but no overall winner. by Sara Martin 1. He invented almost all the stage properties of Gothicism, as seen in: Low in a hollow cave, Name the author. Edmund Spenser 2. Widely accepted as the first of the true "Gothic" novels, its author feared ridicule upon its publication and therefore in an elaborate preface described its creator as one "Onuphrio Muralto." Who was the author and what is the novel? Horace Walpole, Castle of Otranto 3. Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) features the villainous a. Valancourt 4. Radcliffe’s Udolpho went on to play an important part in which famous 19th century British novel? Northhanger Abbey 5. In a classic 18th century novel, extremely popular at the time, we find Ambrosio, the worthy superior of the Capuchins of Madrid, who falls to the temptations of the fiend a. Matilda 6. In Charles Brockden Brown’s Gothic romance Wieland (1798), the elder Wieland, a German mystic who emigrates to Pennsylvania, dies of a. psychically induced suicide 7. The first vampire tale in English was written a. M. G. Lewis 8. Which of the following do Frankenstein and The
Strange a. both were loosely based on real-life cases 9. Edgar Allan Poe is often credited with having invented
detective fiction. Which of his works is considered the first detective story? 10. Bram Stoker’s Dracula was inspired by a. Joseph Sheridan le Fanu’s novella Carmilla 11. Gaston Leroux’s The Phantom of the Opera (1911) was inspired by a. the fairy-tale "Beauty and the Beast" 12. A character in a famous novella dies with the words "The Horror, the Horror." Name the character and the novella. Kurtz, Heart of Darkness 13. Name the American horror fiction writer who was obsessed by the idea that mythological monstrous races had inhabited the earth in the very distant past. H.P. Lovecraft 14. A classic southern novel follows the life of a young boy who
runs away from the West Virginia mountains and makes his way to Haiti where he marries and
then leaves a planter’s daughter, making his way back to the U.S. where the big story
unfolds and a gothic doom prevails. The young upstart is a. Thomas Sutpen 15. A novel by a popular modern Gothic writer was adapted by
Alfred Hitchcock in his first American film. Name the writer and the novel. 16. Name the first novel (later adapted as a Hammer Studio film) in which a werewolf is portrayed as a victim, his transformation being the result of a curse. Guy Endore, The Werewolf of Paris 17. A popular American author published a novel in 1954 that was later adapted as a film with Charlton Heston as the only human being still untouched by a deathly plague that transmitted vampirism. Name the author and the novel. Richard Matheson, I am Legend 18. In 1957 a British author published a novel in which all the women in a certain village are impregnated on the same night and give birth to mysterious children. Name the writer and the novel. John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos 19. Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho was inspired by a short story by Robert Bloch. Bloch’s story, in turn, was inspired by real-life events which later resurfaced in what classic cult film? Texas Chainsaw Massacre 20. William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist (1971) is based on real-life events. In which country and in which year did the real exorcism take place? 1949, USA 21. Name the novel by Stephen King in which a deranged father tries to kill his own son in a snowbound hotel. The Shining 22. New Orleans can boast of having two well-known women writers of vampire fiction among its citizens. Who are they? Anne Rice, Poppy Z. Brite 23. In which novel by Thomas Harris was Dr. Hannibal Lecter first seen? The Red Dragon 24. British horror fiction wizard Clive Barker titled his four volumes of short stories The Books of Blood. What is the slogan that appears on the cover of the books? Everybody is a book of blood; whenever we're opened, we're read. 25. In 1991 American Psycho was rejected by Bret Easton Ellis’s publisher because of its violent content. The squeamish publisher was a. Vintage Books |
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