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Author of 1-across, 8-across and more, ____ King
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"____busters" put the humor in horror
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"____ Macabre" (medieval art motif, and a symphonic poem by Camille Saint-Saëns)
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Cigarette-smoking subject of an eerie Van Gogh painting
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Oft worn hairy costume accessory
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All Saint's Day is October 31 according to the Gregorian _______
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Children's Halloween classic "Charlie Brown and the ____ Pumpkin"
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Acceptable substitute for a toad in a witch's cauldron, perhaps
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Frightened or concerned about danger
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First gothic novel, "The ____ of Otranto"
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2025 is the 50th anniversary of this movie about a cartilaginous ocean terror
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Humperdinck set an opera to this Grimm tale, "____ and Gretel"
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"Symphonie Fantastique" by Hector ____ gives some folks goosebumps
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Children's writer Roald ____ also wrote ghost stories
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Horror director of the "Scream" and "Nightmare" movies, Wes _____
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Novel or movie with an exciting or scary storyline
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Some of Goya's late-life works are named the "____ Paintings" because of their dark subjects and color
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1969 psychological horror film, "Rosemary's ____"
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Edgar who wrote of a pendulum, a cask and a beating heart
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What "Stood Still" in a classic sci-fi film with Michael Rennie
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Traditional Halloween apparel
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Horror films may not be for the ____ of heart
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Author Thomas Harris scared the Bach out of us in "Silence of the _____"
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Let's have a "___ and sound" Halloween this year