Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Know Your Ghost Story?
Here's a trivia game for readers of the classic Peter Straub novel. The letters comprising the answers to the four numbered clues are drawn from the pool below (suggestion: jot down the letters on scrap paper and then cross them off as you go; each successful answer will improve your chances of coming up with the correct responses to the other clues). Those letters contained in brackets ([ ]) can then be unscrambled to form the answer to the BONUS question.
The letter pool:
D I K N R S B I L F
R C F O B H Y D C O
G I T V W T I R L D
O E D W I N E O U E
A N R T L H N I T O
B A O E R Y G M
1.Name of the group that meets to share ghost stories:
The __ __ [ __ ] __ __ __ __ __ __ __ [ __ ] __ __ __
2.(Fictional) town, and state, where the novel is set:
[ __ ] __ __ __ __ [ __ ] __ __ , __ __ __ __ __ __ __
3.Name of the carnivalesque bogeyman character Don Wanderley plans to write a novel about:
__ __. __ [ __ ] __ __ __ __ __ __ __ [ __ ]
4.Film running at the Rialto Theater throughout the novel:
[ __ ] __ __ __ __ __ __ the __ __ __ __ __ __
__ __ __ __
BONUS. Supernatural creature from Native American legend referenced in the novel:
The __ __ __ __ __ __ __
Answers appear in the Comments section of this post.
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ANSWERS:
ReplyDelete1.The CHOWDER SOCIETY
2.MILLBURN, NEW YORK
3.DR. RABBITFOOT
4.NIGHT OF the LIVING DEAD
BONUS: The MANITOU