Take a Dip in the M.R. Trivia Pool

Today's game is like a combination of a crossword and a word jumble.  I present four trivia questions related to American Gothic, and provide the number of letters in each answer.  All the letters comprising the answers are drawn from the letter pool preceding the questions, so you can cross the letters off as you go (each successful answer will thus improve your chances of coming up with the correct responses to the other questions).  The letters that have an asterisk (*) underneath them can then be unscrambled to form the answer to the (separate) bonus question.

So grab your pencil and scratch paper, and good luck.  If you think you've got the answers, go ahead and post them as a comment.  If no brave souls step forward, I will supply the answers tomorrow in the comments section of this post.


First, the letter pool:

M   D   R   S   N   E   M   L   S


L   P   I   O   S   Y   E   S   O


O   R   H   G   U   E   A   E   M


E   O   Y   Y   A   R   T   S   O


And now the trivia questions:

1.The one word The Stand's Tom Cullen would get right in a spelling bee:


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2."The foulest stench is in the air / The funk of forty thousand years / And grisly ghouls from every tomb are closing in to...


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3.Dick Hancock's partner in crime:


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4.End of the world for Twilight Zone bibliophile Henry Bemis when he breaks his...


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BONUS.  New York cigar store girl who inspired a Poe story:


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