Genre - Horror 2

The abundance of magazines in the early part of the 20th Century brought about a boom in the amount of horror literature. Specialist periodicals devoted to horror and fantasy, like Weird Tales, hit the market, giving budding writers the outlet they needed. Great authors such as HP Lovecraft, MR James and Dennis Wheatley emerged, each with their own particular style. We were told stories about ghosts and other supernatural phenomena. Demons were summoned from Hell to the earthly plane whilst the dead rose up from the grave to terrorise the living...

This is the second in our series of three quizzes on horror to keep you awake at night! Summon up, if you will, the protagonists in Psycho, Misery and Rosemary's Baby, remember the spine-chilling works of HP Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe, and then recall the joys of Hell House, The Exorcist, Koko, Mystery and The Throat!