How Well Do You Know Classic Books for Halloween Reading?
Welcome to Lit Trivia, the Book Review’s regular quiz about literary culture. To celebrate Halloween, this week’s installment tests your knowledge of novels driven by magical, madness or horror plots. In the five multiple-choice questions below, tap or click on the answer you think is correct. After the last question, you’ll find links to the books if you’d like to do some further reading.
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Who was the author of “Dracula,” an 1897 novel that continues to inspire vampire fiction to this day?
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The walking dead have been reliable villains and literary metaphors for decades. Which modern novelist wrote “Zone One,” a 2011 novel mostly set in Manhattan during a global zombie plague?
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Which Gothic work is considered one of the first examples of science fiction in the English language?
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Witches, good and bad, have been durable figures over centuries of folklore and stories. Which novel — the first in a series starring a scholar who finds a bewitched manuscript in Oxford’s Bodleian Library — was written by an academic who studied the history of magic and science and is currently a professor of history at the University of Southern California?
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Guy Endore’s best-selling novel follows Bertrand Caillet, a man with a secret, throughout several 19th-century historical events in Europe. The book is considered a landmark of the horror genre. So, what was Caillet’s secret?
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