1. Edvard Munch called his most famous painting Der Schrei der Natur (The Scream of Nature).
2. Pennywise the Clown was portrayed by Tim Curry and Bill Skarsgård.
3. The Electric Chair was part of Andy Warhol's Death and Disaster series , beginning in 1962.
4. Mary Shelley's maiden name was Godwin. Wollstonecraft was her middle name.
5. Shirley Jackson called herself a "practicing amateur witch" and bragged about the hexes she'd placed on disagreeable publishers.
6. Jay Anson claimed The Amityville Horror was based on true events.
7. Anne Rice says Dickens, Hemingway, Shakespeare, the Brontë sisters, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Stephen King influenced her work.
8. Red Dragon was first published in 1981.
9. Gaston Leroux wrote Phantom of the Opera. It was first published in French in serial form, in March of 1910.
10. Mrs. Danvers has been played by Kristin Scott Thomas, Diana Rigg and Dame Judith Anderson.
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