Where did Mary Shelley get the idea for "Frankenstein" in the summer of 1816?

At the Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva, during a ghost-story contest proposed by Lord Byron

Who is the "Frankenstein" in the novel's title?

Victor, the young scientist who builds the creature

How is Bram Stoker's "Dracula" (1897) told?

As a collection of letters, diary entries and newspaper clippings

In Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray", what grows old instead of Dorian?

The portrait the painter made of him

Where was H. P. Lovecraft's "The Call of Cthulhu" first published in 1928?

In Weird Tales, a pulp fiction magazine

Horror Classics Quiz: Gothic Fiction from Frankenstein to Dracula

By which lake was Frankenstein conceived, how is Dracula told, and what grew old in Dorian Gray's place? Test what you know about the classics of horror fiction in ten questions.

10 questions · 3 min

Most of the monsters we now know from films, series and costumes came out of a handful of books written up to two centuries ago. From the first Gothic novel set in a castle to Frankenstein, born of a summer-night contest, and from Dracula, told in letters, to Lovecraft's stories in cheap pulp magazines, this quiz asks about both the pages and the backstage of the horror classics.

Ten questions, four options each. Every answer is settled knowledge in literary history, and guessing is allowed.