Showing posts with label Robert Louis Stevenson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Robert Louis Stevenson. Show all posts
Thursday, July 9, 2020

Edgar Allan Poe's "King Pest": Analysis and Commentary

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Copyright 202 by Gary L. Pullman King Edward III The first sentence of the story establishes its setting: it is “about twelve o...
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Tuesday, July 7, 2020

For Untouchables: Masochistic Horror

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Copyright 2020 by Gary L. Pullman In the middle of a pandemic, most of us might not care to read stories involving plagues and p...
Thursday, July 18, 2019

Plots That May Challenge of Change Common Perspectives

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Copyright 2019 by Gary L. Pullman Not all of the examples in today's post are exclusively related to the horror genre, but each of...
Thursday, August 9, 2018

Doctors of Death

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Copyright 2018 by Gary L. Pullman “ When a doctor goes wrong, he is the first among criminals.” – Sherlock Holmes, “ The Speckled B...
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...
Friday, February 13, 2009

The Horror of the Double

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Copyright 2009 by Gary L. Pullman For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do./ Now if I do that I would n...
Thursday, March 20, 2008

The Monster as the Mirror of the Protagonist’s Soul

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Copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) Monsters are often metaphors, as we saw in the “ Metaphorical Monsters ...