Marta Bausells 

Quiz: can you identify these classic horror books by their covers?

It's a spooky time of year, so get into the Halloween spirit with our latest book cover quiz. How many of these horror classics can you guess from their jacket designs?
  
  


  1. Book number 1

    1. Swan Song – Robert R. McCammon

    2. It – Stephen King

    3. The Cipher, Kathe Koja

    4. Incarnate, Ramsey Campbell

  2. Book number 2

    1. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror – Robert Louis Stevenson

    2. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories – Washington Irving

    3. The Woman in Black – Susan Hill

    4. The Amityville Horror – Jay Anson

  3. Book number 3

    1. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley

    2. Dracula – Bram Stoker

    3. Hell House – Richard Matheson

    4. Books of Blood – Clive Barker

  4. Book number 4

    1. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James

    2. Ghost stories – MR James

    3. The Haunting of Hill House – Shirley Jackson

    4. The October Country – Ray Bradbury

  5. Book number 5

    1. House of Leaves – Mark Z Danielewski

    2. The Best of H. P. Lovecraft – H.P. Lovecraft

    3. The Amityville Horror – Jay Anson

    4. The Complete Tales and Poems – Edgar Allan Poe

  6. Book number 6

    1. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror – Robert Louis Stevenson

    2. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley

    3. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

    4. Faust – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  7. Book number 7

    1. Rosemary's Baby – Ira Levin

    2. The Girl Next Door – Jack Ketchum

    3. The Shining – Stephen King

    4. The Watcher – Charles Maclean

  8. Book number 8

    1. The Hunger – Whitley Strieber

    2. The Silence of the Lambs – Thomas Harris

    3. Psycho – Robert Bloch

    4. The Painted Bird – Jerzy Kosinski

  9. Book number 9

    1. Let the Right One In – John Ajvide Lindqvist

    2. Uncle Montague's Tales Of Terror – Chris Priestley

    3. We Need to Talk about Kevin – Lionel Shriver

    4. The Exorcist – William Peter Blatty

  10. Book number 10

    1. American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis

    2. The Killer Inside Me – Jim Thompson

    3. I Am Legend – Richard Matheson

    4. The Call of Cthulhu – H.P. Lovecraft

Solutions

1:B, 2:A, 3:B, 4:A, 5:D, 6:B, 7:C, 8:B, 9:D, 10:B

Scores

  1. 2 and above.

    The horror! The horror! You'll just have to try again

  2. 3 and above.

    The horror! The horror! You'll just have to try again

  3. 5 and above.

    Not bad for a first attempt. Take another stab...

  4. 8 and above.

    Not bad for a first attempt. Take another stab...

  5. 9 and above.

    Congratulations! You are a true connoisseur of the macabre.

  6. 10 and above.

    Congratulations! You are a true connoisseur of the macabre.

 

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