Test your knowledge of Gothic literature!

Test your knowledge of Gothic literature!

Do you know your Shelley from your Poe? Have you read everything the Brontes wrote? Think you are an afficionado of Gothic literature? Take this quiz to see how well you really know your castles, ghosts, and scary stories.

Which of these eighteenth-century Gothic novels was published earliest?The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann RadcliffeVathek by William Beckford The Castle of Wolfenbach by Eliza Parsons In which of Edgar Allan Poe’s works does the narrator hear a “rapping, rapping at my chamber door”?"The Cask of Amontillado" (1846) "The Tell Tale Heart" (1843) "The Raven" (1845) "The Masque of the Red Death" (1842) What is the name of Maxim de Winter’s family home in Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca (1939)?Hill HouseLimmeridge HouseThornfield HallManderleyWhich Gothic short story features a tax collector who is haunted by spirits whilst staying in an abandoned palace?"The Lady of the House of Love" (1979) by Angela Carter "The Hungry Stones" (1920) by Rabindranath Tagore"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820) by Washington Irving "The Lovely House" (1950) by Shirley Jackson In Northanger Abbey (1818), Jane Austen’s witty parody of the Gothic genre, which Gothic novel does Mr Thorpe describe as “tolerably decent”?The Monk (1796) by Matthew Lewis The Mysteries of Udolpho (1874) by Ann Radcliffe Horrid Mysteries (1796) by Carl Gosse Camilla (1796) by Frances Burney In Cold Comfort Farm (1932) by Stella Gibbons, which character is sent mad by “something nasty in the woodshed”?Seth StarkadderAda DoomFlora PostMeriam BeetleWhich of these contemporary Gothic novels tells the story of Mr Rochester’s first wife?Our Share of the Night (2022) by Mariana Enriquez The Woman in Black (1983) by Susan Hill Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) by Jean Rhys The Little Stranger (2009) by Sarah Waters In Wuthering Heights (1847) by Emily Bronte, Catherine describes her love for Linton as like “the foliage in the woods”.To what does she compare her love for Heathcliff?"The roaring, rapid waves” “The eternal rocks beneath” “The silver of the waning moon” "The ever-growing moorland” Who wrote The Vampyre (1819)?Mary ShelleyLord ByronPercy ShelleyJohn PolidoriWhich Gothic novel closes with this line:“He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance.”The Turn of the Screw (1898) by Henry James Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus (1819) by Mary ShelleyDracula (1897) by Bram Stoker Vivir Abajo (2019) by Gustavo Faveró Patriau

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