ANNE RICE, THE VAMPIRE LESTAT — I saw myself as a man might expect, except that my skin was very white,... my eyes had been transformed from... blue to a mingling of violet and cobalt.... My hair had a high luminous sheen, and... I felt a... new and strange vitality.
| A. | Player of Dr. Stantz in "Ghostbusters" | AYKROYD |
| B. | Grotesquely horrifying | NIGHTMARISH |
| C. | Iniquitous haunt; brood | NEST |
| D. | Prepared for a long rest | EMBALMED |
| E. | Indic language of Gypsies | ROMANY |
| F. | Companion of a canine | INCISOR |
| G. | Like a Gothic dungeon, perhaps | CLAMMY |
| H. | Danny ___, composer of the score for 1999's "Sleepy Hollow" | ELFMAN |
| I. | Death personified | THANATOS |
| J. | Occasion of macabre visions | HALLOWEEN |
| K. | "The snake stood up for ___ in the Garden" (Robert Frost) | EVIL |
| L. | Doctor in Bram Stoker's "Dracula" (2 wds.) | VANHELSING |
| M. | Abnormal state of psychic tension | ANXIETY |
| N. | Player of the exorcist in "The Exorcist" (3 wds.) | MAXVONSYDOW |
| O. | People known for the Ghost Dance | PAIUTE |
| P. | Nocturnal demon of legend | INCUBUS |
| Q. | Kind of fever caused by vermin | RATBITE |
| R. | Drained of life; decadent | EFFETE |
| S. | Half-woman, half-serpent of folklore | LAMIA |
| T. | Having a sharp and piercing quality | EDGED |
| U. | Comic book monster who declares, "I was once a man. I know the evil men do" (2 wds.) | SWAMPTHING |
| V. | What the alien did in John W. Campbell's "Who Goes There?" | THAWED |
| W. | Scare the willies out of | AFFRIGHT |
| X. | Unknowing cannibal in a Greek myth | THYESTES |