Showing posts with label Dracula. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dracula. Show all posts
Sunday, June 14, 2020

Horror Story Plot Formulas

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Copyright 2020 by Gary L. Pullman In every horror movie, there is, of course, a protagonist and an antagonist. For convenien...
Saturday, September 8, 2018

Humor and Horror: An Unlikely Mix

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Copyright 2018 by Gary L. Pullman Jib Fowles, a professor of communications at the University of Houston, wrote several books on a...
Thursday, April 7, 2011

Monsters of the New Depression

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman If critics are right about the times in which we live spawning the monsters who inhabit our waking ni...
Saturday, February 19, 2011

Heightened Horrors--and Heroes: Ourselves, Writ Large

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman Watching children watching cartoons that contain moments which, to their audience, are frightening re...
Tuesday, November 2, 2010

"The Judge's House": An Example of Gothic Technique

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman Bram Stoker, the author of the novel Dracula and the short story “ Dracula‘s Guest ,” also wrote m...
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Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Quick Tip: Make Your Villains Both Timely and Timeless, Both Particular and Universal

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman The nature of a monster is determined partly by the sociopolitical and cultural milieu of its time. It ...
Friday, May 14, 2010

from The Dark Descent

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Today’s post carries no byline because it’s really a summary of observations by David G. Hartwell, editor of The Dark Descent (Tor, NY, 198...
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Sunday, January 10, 2010

Quick Tip: The Importance of Setting

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman In “‘Closer Than an Eye’: The Interconnections of Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ,” Colin N. Manlove...
Monday, November 3, 2008

Do Not Pass “Go”; Do Not Collect $200: Monster Board Games

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman When one tires of Monopoly and Scrabble, there’s always the death and destruction of the diabolically cree...
Sunday, March 30, 2008

Masters of the Macabre

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman Genre fiction focuses upon the conveyance of one emotion. For science fiction, according to C. S. Lewis, t...