Showing posts with label Dan Simmons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dan Simmons. Show all posts
Saturday, June 29, 2019

Showing Off the Neighborhood

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Copyright 2019 by Gary L. Pullman Stephen King is known for the small-town settings of his horror novels, but o ther novelists also fi...
Saturday, March 12, 2011

For a Writer, Too, Two (Or More) Heads Are Better Than One

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman Dusted: The Unauthorized Guide to Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Lawrence E. Miles, Lars Pearson, an...
Saturday, November 13, 2010

The Adaptation of the Gothic

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman South cloister of Gloucester Cathedral, looking eastwards.  By William Avery. Source: Wikimedia...
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...
Sunday, January 4, 2009

Generating Horror Plots, Part IV

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Copyright 2009 by Gary L. Pullman    A careful analysis of the storylines of motion pictures, novels, narrative poems, and short stories in...
Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Generating Horror Plots, Part II

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Copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman A careful analysis of the storylines of motion pictures, novels, narrative poems, and short stories in th...
Sunday, November 30, 2008

Write What You Know (But What Does That Mean?), Part II

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman In a previous post, we considered the lives of Hans Christian Andersen and H. G. Wells as examples of aut...
Sunday, November 23, 2008

Secondary Antagonists

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman Some stories have a main antagonist and one or more lesser, secondary antagonists. The television series B...
Thursday, October 23, 2008

Duma Key: The Decline of Horror?

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Copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman In recent years, it seems that Stephen King has begun to think of himself as a great American writer who c...
Sunday, May 11, 2008

Contemporary Horror Fiction Bookshelf

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman In other posts, we have dropped the names of several of the horror genre’s greatest authors, including Nat...
Saturday, February 16, 2008

Everyday Horrors: Cornfields

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman Southeast Kansas crop circles captured by NASA satellite Cornfields don’t seem all that menacing, do they?...
Friday, December 28, 2007

Plotting Horror Fiction: The Invasion Plot

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copyright 2007 by Gary L. Pullman   Note : Refer to "Basic Plots" for other horror plot patterns that are common to this fiction ...