Showing posts with label William Peter Blatty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label William Peter Blatty. Show all posts
Saturday, October 16, 2021

The Exorcist: A Marriage of Spirit and Matter in the Style of William Peter Blatty

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman William Peter Blatty, the author of The Exorcist, has an eccentric style that is marked by his...
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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. ...
Tuesday, April 14, 2020

The Horror of Objective and Subjective Threats

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Copyright 2020 by Gary L. Pullman Some horror fiction, both on the page and on the sound stage, features threats which are both ob...
Thursday, May 17, 2018

Page and Stage

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Writers who want to incorporate cinematic techniques into their fiction need, first, to translate the latter into their literary equiv...
Thursday, December 15, 2011

William Peter Blatty: Opening and Closing Sentences

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman The Exorcist is destined to become a classic of horror fiction. Its theme--the love of God surpasses bo...
Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Beyond Blood, Guts, and Gore

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman Often, we think of horror fiction as a visceral genre, focusing, as it frequently does, on blood and...
Saturday, February 5, 2011

Horror Settings

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman Horror story settings often play upon the limits of human perception and the effects of such limitatio...
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

William Peter Blatty’s "Dimiter": The Creator and His Creation, or the Mind Beyond Nature

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman The flyleaf to William Peter Blatty’s novel Dimiter (2010) gives a succinct and intriguing synops...