Showing posts with label Ambrose Bierce. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ambrose Bierce. Show all posts
Monday, July 12, 2021

Statistics Don't Lie

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According to Google, these are the most popular Chillers and Thrillers posts so far from 2021 and 2020. In case you missed them, click the ...
Saturday, August 1, 2020

Benefits of Alternate Endings: Pick One

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Copyright 2020 by Gary L. Pullman It was fashionable in Hollywood, at one time, to produce movies that have alternate endings . Holl...
Thursday, May 7, 2020

Horror Again (and Again): Increasing Your Audience by Using Universal Themes

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Copyright 2020 by Gary L. Pullman Diogenes the Cynic observed that it is impossible to step twice into the same river. The writer ...
Tuesday, April 14, 2020

The Horror of Objective and Subjective Threats

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Copyright 2020 by Gary L. Pullman Some horror fiction, both on the page and on the sound stage, features threats which are both ob...
Friday, October 25, 2019

Ambrose Bierce's Puddle-Jumper, "The Flying Machine"

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Copyright 2019 by Gary L. Pullman Recently, I've become more and more interested in flash fiction. To my delight, Fight or Fri...
Monday, September 23, 2013

Ambrose Bierce: A New Hope for Horror Fiction?

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Copyright 2018 by Gary L. Pullman Like other literary genres, horror becomes, sooner or later, more lulling than chilling. The same for...
Saturday, August 27, 2011

Monstrous Signs

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman Haunted houses are easy. Well, the signs that a house may be haunted are easy to spot, anyway. Things ...
Thursday, December 30, 2010

"The Damned Thing": Commentary, Part 2

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman As I indicated in my previous post, Ambrose Bierce’s short story “The Damned Thing” depends, for its e...
Sunday, December 19, 2010

"The Damned Thing": Bierce's Exercise in Existential Absurdity

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman The plot of Ambrose Bierce’s short story “The Damned Thing” is simple--so simple, in fact, that the au...
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