Showing posts with label corpse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label corpse. Show all posts
Saturday, October 30, 2021

Happy Halloween

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 A few stories you might enjoy this Halloween :   Child's play Real story behind 'haunted' island of the Dolls in Mexico Deep ...
Saturday, January 21, 2012

What’s So Scary About Horror Movies?

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copyright 2007 by Gary L. Pullman What makes a horror movie scary? Why do some films frighten us while others don’t send similar chills...
Monday, September 6, 2010

Dinner Parties

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman One way to devise plots is to picture people sharing a meal at a restaurant. The diners could be a ...
Monday, January 11, 2010

Quick Tip: Let Your Setting Suggest Your Characters

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman A middle school literature textbook presents three lines of dialogue between two characters, asking studen...
Sunday, February 1, 2009

Horror Story Survival Tactics

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Copyright 2009 by Gary L. Pullman One would suppose that, to a demon that has taken up residence in the corpse of a recently deceased man or...
Friday, August 8, 2008

Charles Baudelaire’s “Carrion”

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman In a previous post , we shared several relatively short poems that express horrific themes. In this post, ...
Saturday, April 26, 2008

Everyday Horrors: Forensic Etomology and Putrefaction

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman In the movie Ed Gein , the protagonist (one can’t really call Ed a “hero”) disgusts everyone else at the t...
Monday, March 24, 2008

Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments’ as a Hermeneutics for Horror Fiction

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman Adam Smith, alive In Chapter 1 of Part I (“of the propriety of Action”) of The Theory of Moral Sentiments...
Friday, February 15, 2008

Alternative Explanations, Part IV: Vampires, Werewolves, and Zombies

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman In “Alternative Explanations, Part III: Telekinetic Characters,” we considered ways by which skeptics seek...
Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Everyday Horrors: Coffins

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman Replica of Abraham Lincoln's Coffin There’s no pleasant way to get rid of a dead body. Cremation, buri...
Saturday, January 26, 2008

Everyday Horrors: Tombstones

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman In Tombstone, Arizona’s boot hill cemetery, a headstone bears this epitaph: Here lies Lester Moore. He too...
Friday, January 18, 2008

Solipsism, Claustrophobia, Vampires, and Zombies

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman As we age, the objects of our fear change. As children, we fear the dark. We fear monsters. We fear strang...
Sunday, January 13, 2008

How To Rob A Grave

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman Verisimilitude means "true to life," and it's a quality that enhances any story, those of ...
Sunday, December 23, 2007

Dream Monsters

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copyright 2007 by Gary L. Pullman People may disagree as to whether the idea of dream analysis or interpretation has any real value or signi...
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