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Eclipses in literature – quiz

The ghostly light of an eclipse steals over novels, poetry and plays. But how well do you know the literature of occlusion? As darkness falls untimely over a portion of the Earth, test your knowledge of literary shadowings with our quiz
How the solar eclipse and vernal equinox have cast shadows across literature
1.In Chuck Hogan's The Strain trilogy of vampire horror novels a total eclipse coincides with a set of mysterious deaths. Which Mexican director was his co-author?
2.'O insupportable! O heavy hour! / Methinks it should be now a huge eclipse / Of sun and moon; and that the affrighted globe / Should yawn at alteration' – but which Shakespearean leading man finds himself in such despair?
3.Which children's cartoon character predicts an eclipse to escape danger?
4.A murder committed during an eclipse is at the heart of two novels written by Stephen King. But which ones?
5.'High on her speculative Tower / Stood Science waiting for the Hour' – which Romantic poet Which Romantic poet is saluting The Eclipse of the Sun?
6.Isaac Asimov conjures up a world which does not know darkness for more than 2,000 years in his 1941 short story Nightfall. But how many suns usually keep the planet lit?
7.The winner of the 1997 Pulitzer prize for biography features a scene in which the moon disappears 'behind a round black shadow' – but which is it?
8.'O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, / Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse / Without all hope of day ...’ In which poem does Milton explore blindness?
9.Which is the earliest epic poem to feature an eclipse?
10.Which author, dismissed by Stephen King as someone who 'can't write worth a darn', has written a novel called Eclipse?