A Very Literary Halloween Crossword Puzzle

5. A human who turns into a wolf during a full moon.
8. In Poe’s poem, this bird’s single word — “Nevermore” — drives the speaker into despair.
10. A red-eyed winged cryptid from West Virginia legend, often seen before disasters — featured in books and films.
12. Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel introduced this Transylvanian vampire to English literature
13. The terrifying clown from Stephen King’s It who preys on the fears of children.
16. The haunted mansion in Shirley Jackson’s novel The Haunting of Hill House.
18. The vampire hunter who opposes Count Dracula.

1. A legendary ape-like creature said to roam the forests of North America; also called Sasquatch.
2. The nervous schoolteacher who meets the Headless Horseman in Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
3. In The Tell-Tale Heart, the narrator believes he can hear this still beating beneath the floorboards.
4. In Greek mythology, this Gorgon’s gaze could turn men to stone.
6. In Mary Shelley’s novel, this scientist creates life out of parts of corpses - and becomes horrified by his own creation.
7. The last name of the author famous for gothic tales like "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Raven."
9. In mythology, he rules the Underworld — the realm of the dead.
11. Shakespeare’s tragic hero who meets witches on a stormy heath.
14. In "Lamb to the Slaughter, this is what the police do to the murder weapon
15. The last name of the author known as the “Master of Horror,” who wrote Pet Sematary and The Shining.
17. In Dahl’s "Lamb to the Slaughter," this leg of meat becomes an ironic murder weapon.