Hooray for Halloween!
Bats 'n bugs
Befriending bats
Best brain bank
Grave robbers
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Choose your ghoul





 





0) { $selection = 1; } if ($2x > 0) { $selection = 2; } if ($3x > 0) { $selection = 3; } if ($4x > 0) { $selection = 4; } if ($5x > 0) { $selection = 5; } if ($6x > 0) { $selection = 6; } if ($7x > 0) { $selection = 7; } if ($8x > 0) { $selection = 8; } if ($9x > 0) { $selection = 9; } if ($10x > 0) { $selection = 10; } if ($response == "yes") { $query = "select total from voting where vote_num = 1 and selection = $selection"; if (msqlQuery($sock,$query) < 0) { fatal("Error : $ERRMSG\n"); } $res = msqlStoreResult(); $row = msqlFetchRow($res); $total = $row[0]; $nt = (int)$total + 1; $query = "update voting set total=$nt where vote_num = 1 and selection = $selection"; if (msqlQuery($sock,$query) < 0) { fatal("Error : $ERRMSG\n"); } } if ($response != "yes") { echo("
"); } > "); } else { echo("\"mummy\""); } >
 
"); } else { echo("\"atomic"); } >
 
"); } else { echo("\"Dr."); } >
 
"); } else { echo("\"Frankenstein\""); } >
 
"); } else { echo("\"The"); } >
 
"); } else { echo("\"The"); } >
 
"); } else { echo("\"Godzilla\""); } >
 
"); } else { echo("\"mothra\""); } >
 
"); } else { echo("\"The"); } >
 
"); } else { echo("\"Dracula\""); } >
"); } >
The Why Files: Horror of science quiz

We're all interested in the unknown -- in ghouls, ghosts, the unexplainable. We will give you all the facts. And then you must choose. As a miserable soul who survives this awful ordeal, you will need to decide. We cannot hold back this quiz any longer. Let us reward the guilty, punish the innocent. Can your heart stand the shocking facts of The Horrors of Science Quiz??

Vote for your favorite science-related ghoul by clicking on the chosen image. You'll see what the other terrified readers of The Why Files think.

 
   $r[1] votes"; $2t = "
   $r[2] votes"; $3t = "
   $r[3] votes"; $4t = "
   $r[4] votes"; $5t = "
   $r[5] votes"; $6t = "
   $r[6] votes"; $7t = "
   $r[7] votes"; $8t = "
   $r[8] votes"; $9t = "
   $r[9] votes"; $10t = "
   $r[10] votes"; } > The Mummy:
 

The Man with the Atomic Brain:
 


Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde:
 


Frankenstein:

 

The Fly:

 

The Golem:

 


Godzilla:


 

Mothra:

 

Creature from the Black Lagoon:

 

Dracula:

 
(See "Archeologists Rediscover Cannibals" in the bibliography)

All movie stills courtesy of
The Wisconsin Center for Film & Theater Research:

Abbott and Costello Meet The Mummy (Universal, 1955), The Man with the Atomic Brain (Columbia Pictures, 1954), Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Universal International, 1953) Frankenstein (Universal, 1947), The Fly (20th Century Fox, 1958), Der Golem (Paramount, 1921), Godzilla vs. The Thing (American International Pictures), Creature from the Black Lagoon (Universal Pictures, 1954), Dracula (Universal, 1931).


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