2020 Halloween Special

I used Tophonetics.com to transcribe some of the answers.

 Ex. Match the trivia about Gothic and horror literature with the phonemic transcription of the answers. Then write the answers using ordinary English spelling.

1. the most famous vampire, described in a novel by Bram Stoker

2. the evil alien clown from Stephen King's novel IT

3. the author of Psycho and other horror and science-fiction novels

4. the main character of a novel by Ira Levin, who falls prey to her husband and evil neighbours

5. In E. A. Poe's famous poem the mysterious raven repeats this one word

6. the monster Dr Jekyll turns into in R. L. Stevenson's novel

7. Stephen King's novel about a family trapped in a haunted hotel

8. H. P. Lovecraft's most famous evil alien

a. /'nevəmɔː/ b. /ˈdrækjələ/ c. /ˈrəʊzməri/ d. /'kθuːluː/ e. /ˈmɪstə haɪd/ f. /ˈpeniwaɪz/ g. /ˈrɒbət blɒk/ h. /ðə ˈʃaɪnɪŋ/

Key. 1b Dracula, 2f Pennywise, 3g Robert Bloch, 4c Rosemary, 5a nevermore, 6e Mister Hyde, 7h The Shining, 8d Cthulhu