Chillers and Thrillers
is a blog on the theory and practice of writing horror fiction.
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Friday, September 16, 2011
Learning from the Masters: Lincoln Child Shows Us How to Write an Effective Opening Chapter
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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman Typically, an opening chapter, beginning in media res , sets up a mysterious, sometimes bizarre, sit...
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Sex and Horror, Part 4
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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman The werewolf doesn’t figure large in Jason Colavito’s Knowing Fear: Science, Knowledge, and the De...
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Bentley Little: Aberrant Sex as Symbolic of the Nature of Sin
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Friday, May 29, 2009
Reading, Writing, and Plotting
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Copyright 2009 by Gary L. Pullman Other writers won’t write your stories for you, of course, any more than they’re apt to outline a plot f...
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Tentacles, of Themselves, Do Not a Horror Movie Make
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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman Tentacles are creepy. They’re not arms, not exactly--not as we think of arms, anyway--but they’re like no...
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Creating an Eerie Atmosphere and Tone
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Copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman Let’s begin with descriptions, by yours truly, of three Internet images. But, first, a brief digress...
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