Gothic horror trivia challenge!

Ail · Post by **Ail** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 8:25 pm

Delyun wrote:will look for the other one then. I am not good at making questions . I do like looking for the answers. So Ail or Lady Soth post the next question

lol... I'm not that good either

LadySoth · Post by **LadySoth** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 10:22 pm

Ail wrote:
Delyun wrote:will look for the other one then. I am not good at making questions . I do like looking for the answers. So Ail or Lady Soth post the next question
lol... I'm not that good either

So then do you guys want me to come up with the next question?

*Sigh* OK, here goes . . .

Which Anne Rice Vampire initially had a career as a religious icon painter in Russia and later is forced to work in a brothel in Venice?

Griselda · Post by **Griselda** » Tue Dec 15, 2009 12:50 am

I had to hunt a bit for this. I haven't looked into these books in years.

That would be the vampire Armand (formerly known as Amadeo, fomerly known as Andrei).

LadySoth · Post by **LadySoth** » Tue Dec 15, 2009 7:19 am

Awesome! Great job!

Your turn to post the next question Griselda!

Griselda · Post by **Griselda** » Tue Dec 15, 2009 2:25 pm

Hm. Okay.

In 1903, Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman, better known for her "local color" stories of New England, gave us the tale of an unusual vampire. Who was that vampire?

Delyun · Post by **Delyun** » Tue Dec 15, 2009 6:20 pm

is the answer Luella Miller?
I have read that story before.

Griselda · Post by **Griselda** » Tue Dec 15, 2009 6:59 pm

*ding!* Correct!

Got a question for us?

Delyun · Post by **Delyun** » Tue Dec 15, 2009 7:39 pm

Who is the writer of the play the man in the story The Horla goes to watch?

Ail · Post by **Ail** » Wed Dec 16, 2009 6:53 am

Delyun wrote:Who is the writer of the play the man in the story The Horla goes to watch?

Alexandre Dumas son, apparently. Though I had to find the PDF and read it

Delyun · Post by **Delyun** » Wed Dec 16, 2009 10:03 am

Its intent was to make you read it. Correct Your question.

Ail · Post by **Ail** » Wed Dec 16, 2009 11:20 am

Delyun wrote:Its intent was to make you read it. Correct Your question.

Very well, this can be very easy if you've read it or reasonably hard if you haven't.

What vampire in the literature was bound to use only anagrammic names of her true name?

order99 · Post by **order99** » Wed Dec 16, 2009 6:42 pm

Was that Carmilla (Mircalla, Millarca) Karnstein?

If so, here's my question:

What two scientific minds played a part in Mary Shelley's creation of the novel Frankenstein? Hint: neither are fictional.

Bonus points:which two non-fictional sources reputedly inspired Victor Frankenstein in the novel?

Ail · Post by **Ail** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 5:51 am

order99 wrote:Was that Carmilla (Mircalla, Millarca) Karnstein?

Oh yes it was

Ail · Post by **Ail** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 5:55 am

order99 wrote:Was that Carmilla (Mircalla, Millarca) Karnstein?

If so, here's my question:

What two scientific minds played a part in Mary Shelley's creation of the novel Frankenstein? Hint: neither are fictional.

Bonus points:which two non-fictional sources reputedly inspired Victor Frankenstein in the novel?

I take it you are not asking about her writer friends that were gathered in 1816 reading ghost tales, and from which Frankenstein came?

LadySoth · Post by **LadySoth** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 10:13 am

order99 wrote:Was that Carmilla (Mircalla, Millarca) Karnstein?

If so, here's my question:

What two scientific minds played a part in Mary Shelley's creation of the novel Frankenstein? Hint: neither are fictional.

Bonus points:which two non-fictional sources reputedly inspired Victor Frankenstein in the novel?

Erasmus Darwin (Charles Darwin's father) was rumored to be doing experiments with reanimating matter and was one possible inspiration. Also wasn't Percy Shelley something of a scientist himself? I seem to remember reading that he was the equivalent of a physics/bio major at university, doing experiments with electro-magnetism and such. Would these be the two scientific minds you were referring to?

Good questions!

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