Morbid Fantasy Trivia Quiz

Answer: Murder

'The Bloody Chamber' was about a teenage girl who married a rich, older man in order to bring herself out of poverty. The man had been married multiple times before - his last wife had died in a 'boating accident', though her body had never been recovered.

When her husband went away on a business trip, the girl was told that she was forbidden to enter one particular room. You can probably guess what was inside...

Answer: Beauty and the Beast

Beauty's dad was driving home in a storm when his car broke down. He walked to a nearby house with a mysterious owner. The owner insisted on being called Beast. Well, he did have paws and roared like a lion. After being invited to dinner, Beauty stayed at the Beast's house for a time and the two fell in love.

Answer: My father lost me to The Beast at cards.

F. Scott Fitzgerald opened 'The Great Gatsby' with, 'In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.' 'It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen' was from George Orwell's dystopian novel 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'. 'There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it' was the first line of the Narnia novel 'The Voyage of the Dawn Treader' by C.S. Lewis.

The sentence, 'My father lost me to The Beast at cards' introduced 'The Tiger's Bride'. As the line suggested, the story was about a woman who was given to the Beast in a twisted game of cards that her father lost. The story became more obscure when the woman found out what the beast wanted to do with her.

Answer: The woman's cat tripped him on the stairs.

Puss was a cat who had teamed up with a man, known as Puss's 'master'. The two worked together to con people out of money until the man fell in love with a woman. She was locked in her house by her mean husband with only a hag and a tabby for company. Puss and the tabby passed messages between the man and the woman, and contrived a plan to kill the husband. Every morning he went to work while it was still dark.

The tabby planned to trip him up as he was going down the stairs, and she caused him to break his neck.

The man and woman (and their cats) lived off the woman's inheritance.

Answer: Germany

'The Erl-King' was a dramatic ballad written in 1782 by J.W. von Goethe. The Erl-King (or Elf-King) lured children into the Black Forest to their death. Carter's Erl-King lured girls to the tiny house in which he lived in the centre of the wood. He turned them into birds and kept them caged in his house.

Answer: A girl as green as an oak leaf

While riding in the snow, the Count wished for a girl as white as snow. Then the couple came across a pool of blood, and he wished for a girl as red as blood. Finally, they saw a raven, and he wished for a girl as black as a feather. Suddenly, a girl with white skin, red lips, and black hair appeared beside the road. 'She was a child of his desire and the Countess hated her.' She immediately looked for a way to kill the girl.

Answer: A vampire

The lady was 'the beautiful queen of the vampires', 'the last bud of the poison tree that sprung from the loins of Vlad the Impaler'. In the story, the vampire queen hated the curse she was under until a pure and innocent soldier was led to her French chateau.

She tried to entice him into her bedroom, but he was reluctant to take advantage of her as she appeared to be unwell. The vampire cut her finger on a shard of broken glass. The man kissed her bleeding wound, and in the morning she was dead.

Answer: The werewolf was the girl's grandmother.

The girl lived in a harsh, northern country where women were accused of witchcraft for simple, innocent things like having warts, or for owning a black cat. The girl was on her way to her grandmother's house in the forest when she was attacked by a wolf. She cut its paw off with a hunting knife and it ran away. It began to snow, and when the girl arrived at her grandmother's house, she found her in bed with a fever. As the girl tried to help, she noticed that the paw she had cut off and kept had turned into a hand with a wart on one finger. When she removed the blanket, she saw that the old woman's hand was missing and the stump was bleeding. The girl shouted for help and the woman's neighbours rushed in. They beat and stoned the woman to death for being a witch.

The story ended with 'She fell down dead. Now the child lived in her grandmother's house; she prospered.' The abruptness of the last line raises questions about the girl. Did she really fight off a wolf, or did she accuse her grandmother of witchcraft in order to inherit her house?

Answer: If he arrived at the house first, she would kiss him.

The wolf was disguised as a handsome hunter, and the girl fell for him. When they made the bet that she would kiss him if he reached grandmother's house first, she dawdled because she wanted him to win. Unfortunately, the hunter did arrive first and ate the girl's grandmother. Rather than being upset or afraid, when the girl realised what had happened, she seduced the wolf in her grandmother's bed.

Answer: She was a feral child.

The girl, who had been raised by wolves in a forest, was rescued by the hunters who had shot her 'mother' outside the den. She was taken to a convent, where the nuns tried to teach her 'normal' things like hygiene. Eventually they see her as a hopeless case and send her to live with a werewolf-like man called the Duke.