Books Quiz - Genre - Horror 1 (Answers)
Towards the end of the 18th Century a new type of literature appeared - horror. What was different about these stories was that they told of supernatural beings or happenings instead of the more usual realism. The genre bloomed in the 19th Century and many of the horror stories written then, for example Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde or Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray are considered classics today.
This is the first in our series of three quizzes on horror books. Here you will find questions about Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Bram Stoker's Dracula and Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders in The Rue Morgue. A much more contemporary author, considered by many to be a master of the genre, features in all three quizzes. His name – Stephen King. If you are playing these quizzes before bedtime then please don’t have nightmares!
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Christine is a 1958 Plymouth Fury with a mind of her own!
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Giant rats overrun London
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The novel was published when Mary was just 20 years old
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Christian Bale played Bateman in the 2000 film adaptation
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The signal-man in the title is being haunted by a phantom. Each time the spectre appears a terrible accident on the train line follows
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King also wrote Rage, The Long Walk, Roadwork, The Regulators and Blaze under the Bachman pseudonym
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It was first published in 1990
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The mountains cut through Transylvania in modern day Romania
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Published in 1841, it's considered one of the first detective stories
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The novels centre around the character Lestat de Lioncourt, a French nobleman who became a vampire in the 18th Century
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