Showing posts with label Christian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christian. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 6, 2021

Christian Explanations of Vampires, Werewolves, and Witches

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 Copyright 2021 by Gary L. Pullman When Christianity became the dominant religion of the Western world in 313, beginning with Emperor Const...
Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Nature and Nurture: Character and Setting as Destiny

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copyright 2007 by Gary L. Pullman Why did you throw the jack of hearts away? It was the only card in the deck I had left to play. -- ...
Tuesday, September 13, 2011

News You Can Use

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman Newspapers may or may not be dying, but, until they do (if they do), one of them, USA Today , as I h...
Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Beyond Blood, Guts, and Gore

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman Often, we think of horror fiction as a visceral genre, focusing, as it frequently does, on blood and...
Saturday, May 14, 2011

Sex and Horror, Part 4

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman The werewolf doesn’t figure large in Jason Colavito’s Knowing Fear: Science, Knowledge, and the De...
Saturday, May 7, 2011

Sex and Horror, Part 3

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman From a Freudian point of view, ghosts often appear to represent sexual repression. They are appeti...
Sunday, March 22, 2009

Mapping the Monstrous

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Copyright 2009 by Gary L. Pullman In Monster (2005), Frank Peretti includes a map of his novel’s setting, which he updates at the end of ...
Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Presto! You Have a Plot!

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Copyright Gary L. Pullman   It’s fairly easy to plot a contemporary horror novel if you know the formula, which is also fairly simple--quit...
Saturday, January 10, 2009

Writers’ Considerations: Readers’ Likes and Dislikes

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Copyright 2009 by Gary L. Pullman While it is true that a writer should not let his or her writing be determined solely by readers’ observa...
Monday, October 27, 2008

Paradise, Heroism, and the Eternal Return: A Formula for Both Myth and Horror

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman Much of the argument and many of the insights that Paul Nathanson shares with readers of his Over the Rain...