Chillers and Thrillers
is a blog on the theory and practice of writing horror fiction.
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Sunday, July 18, 2010
Knowledge, Ignorance, Surprises, and Suspense "Under the Dome"
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Copyright 2020 by Gary L. Pullman Earlier in the story, flowers that one of Linda and Rusty Everett’s daughters, Judy and Janelle, picked fo...
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Dean Koontz’s Techniques for Engaging Readers and Advancing Plots
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Copyright 2009 by Gary L. Pullman In a previous post, we discussed Dean Koontz’s plot formula. In this article, we will address the techni...
Friday, September 12, 2008
Toward a Taxonomy of Horror Fiction
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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman “Taxonomy” is a fancy word for classification system--a sort of intellectual file cabinet for grouping thi...
Friday, April 18, 2008
How to Haunt a House: Part III
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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman One expects strange things to happen in a haunted house because, well, it’s haunted . Ghosts aren’t like u...
Thursday, January 17, 2008
The Role of the Back Story
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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman In a horror story, the back story must explain the cause, motive, or reason for the uncanny incidents that...
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