1. 

   Whose ghost is it who returns to haunt the titular character in Shakespeare's play Macbeth?

   1. King Duncan

   2. Macduff

   3. Banquo

   4. Lady Macbeth

2. 

   Which well-known chat show host was the main presenter of the BBC's legendary Ghostwatch programme in 1992?

   1. Michael Parkinson

   2. Russell Harty

   3. Terry Wogan

   4. Michael Aspel

3. 

   Rupert Julian directed the 1925 movie of the Phantom of the Opera, but who starred in the title role?

   1. Werner Krauss

   2. Bela Lugosi

   3. Boris Karloff

   4. Lon Chaney

4. 

   Everybody knows that Wednesday is the daughter in the Addams Family, but what was the name of the unexpectedly normal looking niece in The Munsters?

   1. Meryl Munster

   2. Marilyn Munster

   3. Megan Munster

   4. Minnie Munster

5. 

   Chloë Grace Moretz voices Wednesday Addams in the recent Addams Family 2 animation release. But which actor played her in the 1993 live action movie Addams Family Values?

   1. Anjelica Huston

   2. Winona Ryder

   3. Hilary Swank

   4. Christina Ricci

6. 

   Siouxsie and the Banshees are one of the definitive goth bands of the 1970s and 80s. But what was their debut album called?

   1. The Scream

   2. Join Hands

   3. Kaleidoscope

   4. Juju

7. 

   Which Benjamin Britten opera features the ghosts of Miss Jessel and Peter Quint among it cast of characters?

   1. The Beggar's Opera

   2. The Turn of the Screw

   3. Albert Herring

   4. The Prodigal Son

8. 

   What is the collective name of the extra-dimensional demonic beings summoned when you solve the puzzle-box in Clive Barker's Hellraiser?

   1. Cenobites

   2. Sensorites

   3. Sendobites

   4. Cenotrix

9. 

   The 2012 movie version of The Woman in Black directed by James Watkins starred which of these alumni of the Harry Potter movie series?

   1. Tom Felton

   2. Matthew Lewis

   3. Rupert Grint

   4. Daniel Radcliffe

10. 

    Which creepy old novel begins "You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings."

    1. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

    2. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

    3. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

    4. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

11. 

    In 1987 a cover version of R Dean Taylor's song There's a Ghost in My House became the first UK top thirty hit single for which critically acclaimed indie band much loved by John Peel?

    1. The Wedding Present

    2. The Fall

    3. The Undertones

    4. The Smiths

12. 

    King of the goths, Bauhaus lead singer Pete Murphy's chiselled cheekbones featured in an advert for which cassette brand during the 1980s?

    1. Maxell

    2. BASF

    3. TDK

    4. Magpie

13. 

    Who has the nightmare where they see the ghost of Catherine Earnshaw in Emily Brontë's novel Wuthering Heights, as featured in the chorus of Kate Bush's debut single?

    1. Heathcliff

    2. Edgar Linton

    3. Mr Lockwood

    4. Nelly Dean

14. 

    Which of these Universal Studios Frankenstein sequels came out first?

    1. Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

    2. The Ghost of Frankenstein

    3. The Bride of Frankenstein

    4. Son of Frankenstein

15. 

    The BBC recently had an underground podcast hit about a poltergeist written by Danny Robins. Which poltergeist?

    1. The Battersea Poltergeist

    2. The Blackfriars Poltergeist

    3. The Bexley Poltergeist

    4. The Bloomsbury Poltergeist

16. 

    Danny Robins also wrote a recent West End play about a ghost, in which Lily Allen made her stage debut alongside Julia Chan, Hadley Fraser and Jake Wood. What was it called?

    1. 1:11

    2. 2:22

    3. 3:33

    4. 4:44

17. 

    Let Me In, directed by Matt Reeves, was a 2010 American remake of a 2008 cult Swedish horror movie called Let the Right One In. Who directed the Swedish original?

    1. Jan Troell

    2. Lasse Hallström

    3. Mikael Håfström

    4. Tomas Alfredson

18. 

    Which British heavy metal band had a hit with The Number of the Beast in 1982?

    1. Saxon

    2. Iron Maiden

    3. Venom

    4. Def Leppard

19. 

    The ghost of the Commendatore returns as a statue to wreak his revenge and condemn the man who murdered him to hell in the climax of which Mozart opera?

    1. Le nozze di Figaro

    2. La clemenza di Tito

    3. Don Giovanni

    4. Così fan tutte

20. 

    Will Maclean's debut novel was short-listed for the McKitterick Prize this year, and tells the story of a young man attending a series of seances in a mysterious house in Suffolk during the 1970s. What is it called?

    1. The Apparition Factor

    2. The Apparition Phase

    3. The Apparition Phantasm

    4. The Apparition Future

21. 

    Demi Moore and the much-missed Patrick Swayze enjoyed a massive worldwide hit with the movie Ghost, which was the highest-grossing film in which year?

    1. 1986

    2. 1988

    3. 1990

    4. 1992

22. 

    The ghost of which of these former US first ladies is said to haunt the White House, tending to the garden?

    1. Dolley Madison

    2. Martha Washington

    3. Elizabeth Monroe

    4. Martha Jefferson

23. 

    Which former Doctor Who actor appeared as Father Brennan in the 1976 supernatural thriller The Omen?

    1. William Hartnell

    2. Patrick Troughton

    3. Jon Pertwee

    4. Tom Baker

24. 

    Who played the character of Nancy Thompson in Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street, opposite supernatural slasher Freddy Krueger?

    1. Heather Langenkamp

    2. Neve Campbell

    3. Drew Barrymore

    4. Toni Collette

25. 

    Which town was the TV series of Buffy The Vampire Slayer set in?

    1. Sunnyvale

    2. Sunnytrail

    3. Sunnydale

    4. Sunnyville

Solutions

1:C - Is it a ghost though? Or just a delusion brought on by guilt? Perhaps we shall never know. Either way it is Banquo that Macbeth sees at the banquet. That's Ian McKellen as Macbeth in a Trevor Nunn directed production of the play in 1976 in the photo by the way., 2:A - The gruff no-nonsense Parkinson gave the evening an air of gravitas alongside Sarah Greene, Mike Smith (pictured) and Craig Charles., 3:D - It was Chaney, who devised his own make-up, which was kept secret in advanced publicity to maximise its effect on the audience when it was revealed., 4:B - Given that she was the only member of the ensemble not made up to be a ghoul, freak or monster, much hilarity would ensue when she brought potential boyfriends back to the Munster household., 5:D - It was Ricci, one of the highlights in the generally well-received if not entirely box office dynamite movie., 6:A - Released in November 1978 in the UK. Initially the band were considered to be more punk or post-punk than goth, but that soon changed. Eyeliner to die for. , 7:B - First performed by the Sadler's Wells Opera in 1954, it tells the story of a governess arriving to look after two new charges, and her gradual exposure to the ghosts from their past that haunt them still., 8:A - Barker says that he drew his inspiration for the cenobite designs from punk fashion, Catholicism and sex clubs. That's quite a Friday evening that someone is cosplaying in the picture above., 9:D - The former Harry Potter actor took the role of Arthur Kipps, who goes to Crythin Gifford as a young man, setting off an unsettling train of events., 10:B - That is the beginning of Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus, written by Mary Shelley and published anonymously in 1818. Her name did not appear on it until a second edition was issued in 1821., 11:B - It went on to appear on the band's album The Frenz Experiment, and the single came in a limited edition that had a "hologram" of a ghost on the sleeve, which now sells for as much as £10., 12:A - The ad featured Murphy sitting in a chair facing a speaker with his hair swept back by the sheer power of the sound from the "ultra dynamic cassette". , 13:C - Although Kate Bush sings: "Heathcliff, it's me, I'm Cathy," it is Mr Lockwood who recounts the experience of his dream as the narrator of the early part of the unrelentingly grimdark book. His reaction to the spirit is to grasp its arm and try and slash its wrists on a broken pane of the window, suggesting he's just as much of a miserabalist as everybody else in the novel., 14:C - Bride of Frankenstein was the first sequel off the Universal production line, arriving in 1935, ahead of Dracula's Daughter in 1936. Son of Frankenstein came out in 1939, while The Ghost of Frankenstein was a 1942 offering, with Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man coming the following year., 15:A - The mix of drama and documentary concerned a haunting that was said to have taken place in the 1950s in Battersea. Nadine Shah supplied the mesmerising theme tune., 16:B - It is named 2:22 after the mysterious happenings in the house belonging to Lily Allen's character which always seem to manifest at 2.22am. It would be a very rude ghost that kept waking you up as late as 4.44am, wouldn't it?, 17:D - The film tells the story of a bullied 12-year-old boy who develops a friendship with a strange child in Blackeberg, a suburb of Stockholm, in the early 1980s. It is based on the 2004 novel of the same title by John Ajvide Lindqvist, who also wrote the Swedish screenplay, which is easily the better of the two films., 18:B - Taken from the album of the same name, The Number of the Beast reached number 18 in the UK charts, and will still blow away the cobwebs today if you put it on., 19:C - Don Giovanni comes to an untimely end having generally been disagreeable to all around him for most of the previous two acts., 20:B - Extremely well-regarded, there was a limited edition of 1,000 copies each of which had one word of a short prologue story written in them, which people then needed to crowd-source on social media in order to be able to read., 21:C - Earning five nominations at the 63rd Academy Awards the following year, Ghost was a massive hit in 1990, and also propelled The Righteous Brothers' cover of Unchained Melody back into the charts after it featured on the soundtrack., 22:A - Dolley Madison, the spouse of fourth US president James Madison, is credited with crafting some of the early role of the first lady in US presidential politics, organising social events where different political factions could meet and pursue bipartisan solutions to problems. However, she is perhaps now best remembered as part of the White House ghost tour – staff during Woodrow Wilson's time in office report seeing her tending the garden there. The White House is also reputed to be haunted by the ghost of Abigail Adams, the spouse of the second president, John Adams., 23:B - It was Troughton, who played Dr Who from 1966 to 1969 and then intermittently afterwards, who appeared in the movie and met an unfortunate end., 24:A - She is the main protagonist in the first movie, and reprised the role in 1987's A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors and 1994's Wes Craven's New Nightmare., 25:C - Unfortunately the good citizens of Sunnydale had built their high school right on top of a hellmouth, leading to seven seasons and 144 episodes worth of deadly vampire-slaying consequences.

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