One Awful Death After Another Trivia Quiz

Answer: Acid

Prospero's death kicked off the series with a big grisly mass death. An influencer determined to throw the party of the century, he had a special effect ready for his guests: at a high point of his costume-party-rave, the sprinklers would go off. Only Prospero didn't check the source of the water; the water tanks had been filled with acid that melted his guests with great agony. Only one guest survived.

This storyline relates to Poe's short story "The Masque of the Red Death."

Answer: Over a balcony

Leo, a drug and video game addict, became fixated on a cat, which he perceives as violent and evil. When he sees it perched on a balcony rail, he dives for it, only to go head first to his death on the street below. This episode is based somewhat on Poe's short story "The Black Cat," which was published in 1843 in 'The Saturday Evening Post.'

Answer: Mauled by primates

We never learn why Camille loathes her half-sister Victorine so much, but that hate lead to her death. Certain that Victorine was up to no good in her lab, Camilla came to snoop, only to be attached by the primates Victorine had been using in some ghastly experiments. See Poe's short story "Murder in the Rue Morgue" for reference.

Answer: Buried in a wall and cyanide

Roderick and Madeline Usher, in their ambition to take over the Fortunato company, drugged the CEO and sealed him up behind a brick wall. He might even have been grateful for the cyanide Madeline left him. This dreadful experience shows up in Poe's short story "The Cask of Amontillado."

Answer: Suicide by knife

Victorine was Roderick's greatest hope: unlike his other children, she was intelligent and successful. But unbeknownst to him, she was going crazy with the pressure of finding a cure for a rare fatal vascular condition that her father had. When she realized she had committed a particular horror, she killed herself with a knife, offering her father her own heart for more testing. Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" is about a man who hears the beating heart of a man he murdered and buried under his floorboards.

Answer: Hit by bookend

Dr. Alessandra Ruiz was Victorine's professional and romantic partner. When she told Victorine she would no longer break ethical rules for their experiment, in a fit of anger, Victorine threw a heavy bookend at her, looking shocked when she realized the blow was fatal. We see that Victorine implanted a fake heart into her dead lover's body, which produced a steady, horrible thump-thump. Alessandra was the name given to a character in an unpublished and unfinished play Poe wrote about a deadly love triangle, "Politian."

Answer: Mirror shards

Tamerlane Usher went bananas and smashed every mirrored surface in her apartment with a fire poker, including one in the ceiling that broke into shards that sliced her to death. This happened after she failed to launch a Goop-like influencer website called "Goldbug." Poe wrote a short story titled "Gold-bug" about a golden beetle, an encoded message, and hidden treasure.

It has a happier ending than Tamerlane.

Answer: Swinging blade of sheet metal

By the time Frederick Usher dies by a swinging blade in a house that's being demolished, viewers are rooting for it. He tortured his wife, suffering acid burn victim Morela, with evil glee, thinking she had been unfaithful. His death draws from Poe's story "The Pit and the Pendulum."

Answer: Verna

This may be the least bloody death in the show, but it might be the most difficult because Lenora was the only kind person in the whole Usher line. "She is the best of us," her grandfather says. But she couldn't live, because the curse dictated that Roderick's line be completely eradicated. Verna, the mysterious, deadly Raven, gently but swiftly killed Lenore with a single stroke on her forehead. Poe wrote about a beautiful, young dead woman named Lenore in the poem of the same name and in "The Raven."

Answer: Madeline

Roderick Usher made a deal with the devilish Raven when he was young: he would be fantastically rich and powerful, but his bloodline would die with him. This was a pretty rotten deal for him to make at the time, as he already had two kids, but morality was not really part of his makeup.

When he does die, it's not from his vascular condition but from his twin, Madeline. He tried to kill her with poison first, but she lived long enough to strangle him to death. And that was the end of the Usher line.