Halloween

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Across
  1. 4. Devices like this were used in ancient China to contact the dead. The modern version is a registered trademark of Hasbro Inc. It’s name derives from the German & French words for “Yes”
  2. 6. A book and movie series is based on the apparently real-life experiences of the Lutz family. The house can be found in this New York town.
  3. 8. A 1493 drawing shows skeletons participating in a particular type of dance.
  4. 10. Worldwide, this is the most common blood type.
  5. 13. Norman Bates from “Psycho”, 
Leatherface from “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” & Bufallo Bill from “Silence of the Lambs” 
were based on this real-life grave-robbing Wisconsin native
  6. 14. When Jason Vorhees was a little boy, he drowned in a lake at summer camp. His mother seeks revenge and starts hunting down the counselors of this summer camp
  7. 15. Six-year old Andy Barclay wants a “Good Guy Doll” for his birthday. When he receives one, the doll tells Andy that his name is this…
  8. 17. Halloween staples “An American Werewolf in London” and the music video for “Thriller” were both directed by this man.
  9. 20. In the film “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” Tim Curry plays this sweet transvestite that hails from the planet transsexual in the galaxy of Transylvania
  10. 21. Washington Irving’s horror story featured a town being haunted by the ghost of a revolutionary war soldier who had been killed by a cannonball.
  11. 23. This ferryman was charged with bringing people over the river Styx into the underworld
Down
  1. 1. BRAINS. This guy wants them. Ray Bolger’s most famous film role was based on a protagonist in a novel by Lyman Baum.
  2. 2. In a song by The Charlie Daniels Band, the Devil challenges someone to a fiddle-playing contest. In which state does this contest occur?
  3. 3. This Witch of Russian Mythology rides in a mordor, carries a broom, and lives in a chikcen-legged hut
  4. 5. This scary dude hunts downs his victims where they are most venerable: In their dreams.
  5. 7. These soul-sucking fiends are guards of the wizard-prison, Azkaban
  6. 9. Frankenstein’s Monster had been portrayed many ways since its conception in 1818. But this iconic look was first glimpsed in the 1931 film “Frankenstein” where the monster was played by this Grinchy guy…
  7. 11. Before pumpkins, Irish & British celebrators of Halloween would traditionally carve into this vegetable
  8. 12. In the 1963 Twilight Zone episode “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet” Bob Wilson notices a gremlin on the wing of his airplane. Wilson is played by this iconic actor.
  9. 13. After the release of this creepy film in 1984, producer Steven Spielberg suggested that the MPAA change its rating system to accommodate movies that fell somewhere between PG & R. Thus PG-13 was created
  10. 16. Bram Stoker’s Count Dracula was inspired by this real life Romanian ruler who impaled his victims
  11. 18. The mask from the film “Scream” is based on artwork by which Norwegian painter?
  12. 19. This top selling Candy Corn company sells enough candy each year that if the kernels were laid end-to-end it would encircle the Earth 4.25 times.
  13. 22. One of the most famous haunted houses in American is Neoclassic-Style and is said to be haunted by a 6’4’’ man with a dark beard named: