Showing posts with label detective. Show all posts
Showing posts with label detective. Show all posts
Friday, April 24, 2020

Three Images

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Copyright 2020 by Gary L. Pullman Note: This discussion is based on Tzvetan Todorov's analysis of the fantastic, which is ...
Thursday, July 5, 2018

Plotting a Horror Story as a Mystery

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Copyright 2018 by Gary L. Pullman Many of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short stories start with Sherlock Holmes's observations ...
Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Writing the Murder Mystery

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman Typically, the story starts in media res , with the discovery of a body. Early on, perhaps in ...
Friday, June 24, 2011

Dear Reader, Meet Gideon Crew; Gideon, Dear Reader

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman There are 80 chapters (405 pages) to Douglas Lincoln and Preston Child’s latest novel, Fever Dream...
Thursday, March 24, 2011

Don't Answer the Phone

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman It’s cheesy and it’s sleazy, but it’s a lot of fun to watch. Don’t Answer the Phone (1980) is abou...
Sunday, October 24, 2010

The Mystery of "The Cask of Amontillado"

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Copyrigth 2010 by Gary L. Pullman In “The Purloined Letter,” a detective story, Edgar Allan Poe makes a big show of a stolen (“purloi...
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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

from Formula Fiction?: An Anatomy of American Science Fiction, 1930-1940

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Today’s post carries no byline because it’s really a summary of observations by Frank Cioffi, author of Formula Fiction?: An Anatomy of Amer...
Sunday, September 7, 2008

Frustrating Formulaic Fiction

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman Genre fiction is formulaic fiction. It must be. There’s an unwritten law somewhere that requires it t...
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...