1. What was Stephen King’s first published novel (Hint: It was also made it into a movie and features controversial scenes)?
2. Who wrote I Am Legend (The book formed the basis for the subsequent movies ‘The Last Man on Earth’ and ‘Omega Man’. The latest film featured Will Smith as the lead)?
3. Who is the main character in Anthony Horowitz’s Raven’s Gate? (Hint: The other books in the series focus on other characters, but they each are intertwined by this one)
4. What nationality is Darren Shan, the bestselling author of the Demonata and Cirque du Freak series’?
5. What year was Frankenstein published by Mary Shelley?
6. Who wrote The Road? (The book won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and has been made into a film, starring Hugo Mortensen, the same actor from the LOTR trilogy)
7. The Silence of the Lambs, written by Thomas Harris, was made into a film starring which creepy actor? (HINT: he is infamous for the sick spluttering and torments Jodie Foster when she visits him in prison)
8. William Peter Blatty wrote The Exorcist in which year? (Difficult question which deserves two points here. The book was much quieter than the films)
9. Which town is the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde, written by Robert Louis Stevenson, set in?
10. The son of Stephen King, author of Heart-Shaped Box and Twentieth Century Ghost’s, goes under which alias?

a)      John King

b)      Alan King

c)       Joe Hill

d)      Robert Sterling

ANSWERS…

1- Carrie 2- Richard Matheson 3- Matt Freeman 4- Irish 5-1818 6-Cormac McCarthy 7-Anthony Hopkins 8-1987 9-London 10- c)