Showing posts with label The Others. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Others. 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 ...
Thursday, July 30, 2020

Secret Motivations

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 Copyright 2020 by Gary L. Pullman Often, in horror stories and films, a secret, past or present, drives and directs protagonists'...
Thursday, June 18, 2020

Calling the Shots

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Copyright 2020 by Gary L. Pullman In The Annotated Poe , the observation is made that Edgar Allan Poe's work has suggested...
Sunday, March 8, 2020

Damsels (and Villains) in Distress

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Copyright 2020 by Gary L. Pullman     Horror movies often put characters in compromising situations—circumstances or conditions in...
Friday, December 28, 2018

Characters + Twist = Outcome

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Copyright 2018 by Gary L. Pullman It's possible to analyze the plot dynamics of horror fiction, whether a particular narrative or...
Sunday, September 30, 2018

Setting: More Than Merely Time and Place

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Copyright 2018 by Gary L. Pullman In horror stories, as in other types of fiction, setting may be, and often is, more than merely ti...
Sunday, November 21, 2010

Ironic Endings

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman In “Spectral Forms,” a chapter of The Gothic Vision: Three Centuries of Horror, Terror, and Fear ,...
Friday, June 18, 2010

Equating “This” with “That”

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman Like most art, fiction is built upon metaphorical understandings and communications of human experience. ...