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Scary Stories To tell In The Dark
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Test your knowledge on the tales in these urban myth anthology novels.
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1
'The Big Toe' may sound familiar. It was adapted from the notes of which notable fairy tale writer?
Aesop
Hans Christian Anderson
Lewis Caroll
Wilhelm & Jacob Grimm
2
In the Scary Story "Oh Susannah!" A girl is annoyed by her roomate humming the tune. What makes this story distressing?
She never heard the humming, it was all a dream
She never had a roommate
She discovered her roommate was headless
The Humming was coming from inside her own head
3
A classic twist in some horror/suspense stories appears in the Scary Story 'Babysitter'. What is that twist?
The babysitter was confused and sat on the babies
The calls were coming from inside the house
The kids have been dead for 10 years
The parents never had any children
4
'High Beams' tells of a woman being followed close by a trucker with his high beams on. What is the reason for this?
The trucker is hazing her because she drives too slow
The trucker is a spurned suitor of the woman
The trucker is a serial killer that singles out female drivers
The trucker was warning the woman of a man with a knife in her back seat
5
Sweeney Todd is as old an example of Scary Story as can be. Which Scary Story is eerily similar?
Cemetery Soup
Wonderful Sausage
The Dead Man's Brains
Just Delicious
6
What is the story of the big toe about?
A boy buries what looks like a bone and it begins to grow a toe
A boy finds, makes and eats a soup of big toe with his family
A boy tends to a graveyard and comes upon a toe jutting out of the ground
A boy gets buried alive with nothing but his big toe above ground
7
In 'The Dream' a pale lady with black hair and black eyes appears to a young woman in dream and later real life and says
You shouldn't be here. Get out of my house.
I need some color. How about I take yours?
This is an evil place. Run while you still can.
You look tasty. I'll have you for breakfast.
8
What Scary Story is adapted by The Twilight Zone and its title used as one frightening line?
What do you Come for?
Room for One More
May I Carry your Basket?
Wait Till Martin Comes
9
'White Satin Gown' tells the tale of a second hand dress that kills a young woman. What about the dress causes her end?
The gown was hideous and she died of embarrassment
The gown was cursed by a bride left at the alter
The gown had formaldehyde in it that poisoned the young woman
The gown was too tight and she died from lack of oxygen
10
The Scary Stories Movie poster features Harold the Scarecrow. What is his frightening tale about?
Two farmers create a scarecrow and it causes their crops to die.
Two farmers create a scarecrow and it scares everything except crows.
Two farmers create a scarecrow and it eats them both.
Two farmers create a scarecrow that frightens and skins one of the farmers
11
This is a short horror classic, based on the art alone what is the name of this tale?
The Hook
Man door hand hook car door
The Hook on a Handle
Hook
12
Another story featured in the Scary Stories movie is the Red Spot. What is the Red Spot?
It's full of spiders
It's just a large pimple
It's what happens to you if you let people kiss you on the cheek
It's a third eye growing in her cheek
13
A haunted house is shown in the Scary Stories trailer. In the books a story titled Haunted House is about what?
A preacher walks past a haunted house at night and dies slowly of fright
A preacher hears of a haunted house and cleanses it in an exorcism
A preacher hears of a haunted house and solves the murder that haunts it
A preacher stays in a haunted house and begins rotting away the next day
14
Having been published in 1981, the Scary Stories books have had a while to sell how many copies?
967,340
1.5 Million
7 Million
2.74 Million
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As well as the Stories, the art of 'Scary Stories' is iconic. Who wrote/drew these horror anthology novels?
Alvin Schwartz, Stephen Gammell
Alvin Schwartz, Scott Fischer
Alvin Schwartz, H.P. Lovecraft
Alvin Schwartz, Brett Helquist
