Showing posts with label Douglas Preston. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Douglas Preston. Show all posts
Sunday, September 29, 2019

Styling the Thriller

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Copyright 2019 by Gary L. Pullman   Thriller: Stories to Keep You Up All Night In his “Introduction” to the 2006 Thriller...
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...
Thursday, June 7, 2018

Creating Hostile or Threatening Settings

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Copyright 2018 by Gary L. Pullman Writers of horror fiction have several ways by which to suggest threatening or hostile environments....
Saturday, September 3, 2011

The First Three Closing Paragraphs in “Gideon’s Sword”: A Study in Motivation

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman An earlier series of posts examined Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child’s use of opening chapter...
Saturday, August 13, 2011

Fever Dream’s Opening Paragraphs (Chapters 1 through 20: Recap)

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman The opening paragraphs of Chapters 1 through 20 of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child’s Fever Dream ...
Saturday, August 6, 2011

Fever Dream’s Opening Paragraphs (Chapters 17 through 20)

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman The opening paragraph of Chapter 17 of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child’s Fever Dream locates the...
Friday, August 5, 2011

"Gideon’s Sword": The Verdict

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman In a note at the end of their latest Aloysius Pendergast novel, Fever Dream , Douglas Preston ...
Saturday, July 30, 2011

Fever Dream’s Opening Paragraphs (Chapters 14 through 16)

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman The fourteenth chapter of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child’s Fever Dream is the shortest so far. ...
Saturday, July 23, 2011

Fever Dream’s Opening Paragraphs (Chapters 11 through 13)

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman The eleventh chapter of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child’s Fever Dream \ introduces the reader to ...