THE 2014 HALLOWEEN HORROR SCREEN GRAB QUIZ

"Thy soul shall find itself alone
'Mid dark thoughts of the grey tomb-stone;
Not one, of all the crowd, to pry
Into thine hour of secrecy.

Be silent in that solitude,
Which is not loneliness-for then
The spirits of the dead, who stood
In life before thee, are again
In death around thee, and their will
Shall overshadow thee; be still.

The night, though clear, shall frown,
And the stars shall not look down
From their high thrones in the Heaven
With light like hope to mortals given,
But their red orbs, without beam,
To thy weariness shall seem
As a burning and a fever
Which would cling to thee for ever.

Now are thoughts thou shalt not banish,
Now are visions ne'er to vanish;
From thy spirit shall they pass
No more, like dew-drop from the grass.

The breeze, the breath of God, is still,
And the mist upon the hill
Shadowy, shadowy, yet unbroken,
Is a symbol and a token.
How it hangs upon the trees,
A mystery of mysteries!"

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A bit of Poe to prime the pump and set the blood-chilling atmosphere, and off we go with for this year’s Halloween Horror Screen Grab Quiz. I hope the fun to follow won’t be received as too much of a comedown, the great American horror storyteller being somewhat of a hard act to follow.

As in past years, from here proceeds 31 pictures of mystery and horror and general fearfulness for you. You need only identify the films from they are derived. I’ve tried not to be obvious, nor too obscure, though it seems inevitable that some frames are more easily recognizable than others, depending on your fluency in the genre. But can you get them all? If you dare, gaze upon the grabs and then send your answers, with the subject heading “HALLOWEEN SCREEN GRAB 2014” (in all caps) to: powser2@earthlink.net. (Don’t post your answers in the comments section, lest the less erudite among you get too many free answers.) Then on November 1 I’ll post the name(s) of the winner(s).

No prizes, just glory and the envy of those who couldn’t take the pressure.

Now lights out. You may begin.

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