1. Bob Clark, who directed the classic A Christmas Story, also directed this holiday horror movie about a group of sorority sisters who are stalked and murdered over Christmas vacation by a killer hiding in their sorority house.
   A) Santa Claws
   B) Slay Bells
   C) Silent Night, Deadly Night
   D) Christmas Evil
   E) Black Christmas
2. Telling “scary ghost stories” at Christmas is an old tradition, sadly less prevalent than it used to be, but still mentioned as one of the anticipated activities in this song popularized by Andy Williams.
3. This story by H.P. Lovecraft, set at Christmastime, follows an unnamed narrator’s visit to his ancestral town and his discovery of its dark past.
   A) “The Dunwich Horror”
   B) “The Festival”
   C) “The Picture in the House”
   D) “The Cats of Ulthar”
   E) “The Colour Out of Space”
4. The novelette “Overtime,” set in the horror/spy thriller “Laundry” milieu, details Agent Bob Howard’s fight to keep something which definitely isn’t Santa from coming down the chimney and into our reality. Who writes the “Laundry” series, which includes novels like The Atrocity Archives, The Jennifer Morgue, and The Apocalypse Codex?
5. “The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be, I remember no comment uttered till somebody happened to say that it was the only case he had met in which such a visitation had fallen on a child.” Which classic ghost story begins with this sentence?
   A) The Turn of the Screw
   B) The Haunting of Hill House
   C) The Old Nurse’s Story
   D) The Poor Clare
   E) Green Tea
6. This mythical being of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld is somewhat akin to Father Christmas, granting children’s wishes and bringing them presents on Hogswatchnight.
7. What is the name of the Grinch’s long-suffering dog?
   A) Rex
   B) Sam
   C) Brutus
   D) Max
   E) Spot
8. “Boz” and (occasionally) “Timothy Sparks” were pseudonyms used by this writer of a very popular Christmas tale.
9. The Buffy the Vampire Slayer Christmas episode “Amends” marks the first appearance of this entity, which was the Big Bad of the final season.
   A) Glorificus
   B) The First
   C) Acathla
   D) Mayor Wilkins
   E) Kakistos
10. In this novel by Christopher Moore, subtitled, “A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror,” an angel grants the wish of a child who had witnessed the death of a man dressed as Santa. In his inept attempt to bring “Santa” back to life, he raises everyone in the local cemetery as zombies.

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