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Castle Dracula was in the Carpathian Mountains.

Genre - Horror 1

Horror fiction explores fear, the unknown, and the supernatural, using unsettling settings and intense emotions to disturb readers and make them question what they think is safe.

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Writers use imagery linked to darkness, silence, blood, or confinement to create a vivid emotional response in the reader.

In Specialist Books quizzes on horror fiction, you look at how writers build atmosphere, shape characters, and structure plots to create unease, shock, or dread while still keeping readers engaged with the story.

  • Horror fiction: A genre that aims to unsettle or frighten readers through disturbing events, settings, or ideas.
  • Atmosphere: The mood or feeling created by a writer through setting, description, and tone.
  • Gothic: A style of storytelling that often includes old buildings, mystery, and heightened emotion to create suspense and fear.
What is horror fiction in literature?

Horror fiction is literature designed to disturb, alarm, or frighten readers, often by confronting them with dangerous situations, unsettling ideas, or intense psychological pressure.

How do writers create fear in horror stories?

Writers create fear by controlling pace, using suspenseful settings, limiting what the reader knows, and adding disturbing sensory details that make ordinary places feel threatening or unsafe.

Is horror fiction always about ghosts and monsters?

No, horror fiction can focus on ghosts and monsters, but it can also explore fear through everyday situations, psychological tension, or real-world threats that feel disturbingly believable.

1 .
What is the title of the 1983 novel by Stephen King about a killer car?
Caroline
Christine
Clarissa
Cruella
Christine is a 1958 Plymouth Fury with a mind of her own!
2 .
What is the name of the ghost story published by Charles Dickens as part of his Mugby Junction collection in 1866?
The Bogie-Man
The Dust-Man
The Post-Man
The Signal-Man
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
3 .
What is the title of James Herbert's first novel, published in 1974?
The Bats
The Cats
The Dogs
The Rats
Giant rats overrun London
4 .
Which American writer is known for her Vampire Chronicles, beginning with Interview with the Vampire, published in 1976?
Anne Race
Anne Reece
Anne Rice
Anne Royce
The novels centre around the character Lestat de Lioncourt, a French nobleman who became a vampire in the 18th Century
5 .
What is the name of the central character in Bret Easton Ellis's 1991 novel American Psycho?
Patrick Bateman
Patrick Blackman
Patrick Bowman
Patrick Bradman
Christian Bale played Bateman in the 2000 film adaptation
6 .
In Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula, the title character's castle is situated in which mountain range?
Cambrian Mountains
Carpathian Mountains
Caucasus Mountains
Cumbrian Mountains
The mountains cut through Transylvania in modern day Romania
7 .
What is the alternative title of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein?
A Modern Polonius
A Modern Polyphemus
A Modern Prometheus
A Modern Pythagoras
The novel was published when Mary was just 20 years old
8 .
What is the title of Britain's longest running horror magazine, launched by Allan Bryce?
The Dark Side
The Evil Side
The Other Side
The Wrong Side
It was first published in 1990
9 .
Which pseudonym did Stephen King use when writing the novels Thinner and The Running Man?
Richard Bachman
Richard Dorfman
Richard Fleischman
Richard Kaufman
King also wrote Rage, The Long Walk, Roadwork, The Regulators and Blaze under the Bachman pseudonym
10 .
The Edgar Allan Poe short story The Murders in the Rue Morgue is set in which city?
London
Marseilles
Montreal
Paris
Published in 1841, it's considered one of the first detective stories

 

Author:  Tony Rennick (Art and Literature Critic)

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