Showing posts with label Ted Bundy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ted Bundy. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 24, 2012

The Horror of the Incongruous

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copyright 2007 by Gary L. Pullman When something is deemed incongruous, it is (if not amusing) often horrifying. We are not shocked or ...
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Saturday, October 30, 2010

The Monster as the "Mediator Between the Human and the Nonhuman"

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman In Alien Encounters , Mike Rose, writing about science fiction, offers several insightful observa...
Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Heads Will Roll

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman According to Wikipedia ’s article concerning the event, “the scientific revolution began with the ...
Saturday, September 11, 2010

Isolating Your Characters

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman In a previous post (“ Horror as Image and Word ”) , I spoke of the benefit that authors of horror st...
Monday, August 30, 2010

Perspective and Setting: An Overlap of Cinematographic and Literary Technique

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman In Film Narratology , Peter Verstraten explains how, in adopting the perspective of the birds as ...
Sunday, August 22, 2010

The Ted Dilemma: Is Evil a Matter or Nature or Nurture, Determinism or Free Will?

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman Sometimes life is more horrible than horror fiction. In The Stranger Beside Me , Ann Rule demonst...
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Saturday, February 13, 2010

Quick Tip: Vilifying Villains

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman In popular fiction, including horror, it is to the writer’s advantage to make his or her villains despicab...
Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Imagining Hell

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Copyright 2009 by Gary L. Pullman The Christian Hell is named for the Norse goddess who ruled the Aesir’s underworld, Hel. The ancient Israe...
Saturday, February 2, 2008

Everyday Horrors: The Electric Chair

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman Thomas Edison, who gave us the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, the motion-picture projector, and ...
Wednesday, January 16, 2008

The Monsters Within

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman Most of us think of monsters as external threats which take familiar forms: bats and cats and dogs and fro...