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Howard Phillips Lovecraft is a recognized master of horror in literature. His works are full of hints and references creating a gloomy atmosphere that encircles a reader with its tendrils. If you're not familiar with Lovecraft's works, get to know them with this quiz!
Which one is Lovecraft's work?
All these works are good in their own way and frighten the reader. But only the Mountains of Madness story was written by Lovecraft.
It
Mountains of Madness
Lexington Ghosts
The Fall of the House of Usher
The picture shows one of the monsters concocted by Lovecraft, and it is:
There can be no mistake: it has a huge size, wings, tentacles, the sea around it - it is great and terrible Cthulhu.
Yog-Sothoth
Wanderer of Darkness
Cthulhu
Azathoth
Only one of these images can protect a person's mind against the inconceivable power of creatures from other dimensions.
Augustus Derlet, Lovecraft’s friend and follower, concocted this form of the Sign of the Ancients. However, just this sign became canonical one for the Lovecraft’s universe.
With what space object does Lovecraft associate his gloomy world of the Yuggoth?
Pluto is quite far from the Sun, it is always dark and cold. Perhaps, that is why Lovecraft placed the mysterious and gloomy world of the Yuggoth on the edge of the solar system.
Moon
Venus
Black hole
Pluto
Cthulhu slept in a place hidden from people for thousands of years, it is called:
The impossible geometry of the city of R'lyeh puts the fear into hearts of people. It is immersed to the sea floor and will rise when the stars will take their desired position in the sky.
R'lyeh
Yuggoth
Dunwich
Moscow Kremlin
Lovecraft concocted a book that earns a cult following among all horror lovers. It describes the most sinister creatures and the darkest rituals of antiquity. It is called:
Necronomicon has never existed in reality. Maybe it's better.
Book of the Dead
Note of the Death
Necronomicon
Notes from the House of the Dead
Who wrote the damned Necronomicon?
Those who went with the Necronomicon always ended badly. Moreover, Alhazred was no exception. An invisible monster captured and carried away him in broad daylight within sight of many bystanders petrified horror.
Abdul Alhazred, the Mad Arab
Brian de Bois Gilbert, the Pious Crusader
Joseph Carven, the Warlock and Black Magician
What is a trouble spot of heroes of the 'The Colour Out of Space' story?
A stone that fell from the sky infected soils around the Naham Gardner’s farm made it as a Cursed Wasteland.
Ancient oil lamp
Meteorite
Mysterious amulet
Lightning
The Necronomicon copies is housed in the occult library in what fictinal city?
The Miskatonic University sponsored an expedition to the Mountains of Madness. It is called in honor of the river of the same name, on which bank it is located.
Innsmouth
Arkham
Miskatonic
Kadath
On what continent are the Mountains of Madness, to which the scientific team of geology professor William Dyer went?
The Mountains rise above the eternal ice of Antarctica to tens of thousands of meters and close hell and brimstone from the human gaze.
Antarctica
Australia
South America
Africa
Choose the correct name of the Messenger of the Gods who has thousands of forms.
Nyarlathotep is known as the Crawling Chaos. He can easily come to our world compared to other Ancients.
Cheops
Amenhotep
Nyarlathotep
Sphinx
Where was the Haunter of the Dark imprisoned who drove wretched Robert Blake crazy?
The spire was visible from Blake's office window. Little by little, it captured the writer’s attention.
In sewers under the old city
In the dilapidated castle
In the old lighthouse on the ocean bank
In the spire of an abandoned gothic church
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah-nagl fhtagn?
Cultists chant this mantra to awaken the sleeping Cthulhu. It translates as follows: ‘In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulu waits dreaming’.
Truly Phhtagn!
What? I do not know Rumanian
Cthulhu chained my brain
You know something about the Lovecraft's characters only due to memes on the Internet.
Hot shot
You will understand what the matter is, if one day you will see in your dreams a place at the bottom of the sea, which geometry cannot be imagined, or you will want to get in a small town of Innsmouth.
Experienced Cultist
It seems you know far too much. Just in case, draw the Sign of the Ancients on the door.
