Showing posts with label Stephen King. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stephen King. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 11, 2022

Hop-Frog: A Story of Reversals

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman   As a rule of thumb, a writer introduces his or her story’s protagonist before the antagonist makes an ...
Monday, July 12, 2021

Statistics Don't Lie

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According to Google, these are the most popular Chillers and Thrillers posts so far from 2021 and 2020. In case you missed them, click the ...
Tuesday, June 1, 2021

Vocational Horror: The Tools of Its Trade

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 Copyright 2021 by Gary L. Pullman   A device often used to generate plots is to imagine a vocational role that, given a dark twist, produce...
Friday, March 12, 2021

The Ending of the Tale

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 Copyright 2021 by Michael Williams In this post, Michael Williams concludes his remarks about writing a well-plotted story along the lines ...
Friday, March 5, 2021

Lens Crafters, or Yggsdrasil: A World Among Worlds

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 Copyright 2021 by Gary L. Pullman   Like other genre fiction (and, indeed, art in general), horror fiction is mostly a matter of metaphor. ...
Monday, June 8, 2020

Getting to Know Them: H. P. Lovecraft

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Copyright 2020 by Gary L. Pullman Recently, I have begun reading biographical sketches of the masters of horror fiction. (Should...
Monday, May 4, 2020

Werewolves: Three Scientific Explanations

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Copyright 2020 by Gary L. Pullman Chillers and Thrillers has devoted quite a bit of space to several articles on Tzvetan Todo...
Monday, April 6, 2020

"Shadowed": An Amusing Vignette

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Copyright 2020 by Gary L. Pullman   Shadowed (2020), directed by David F. Sandberg, star his wife, Lotta Losten, and five shadow p...