Showing posts with label evil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label evil. Show all posts
Sunday, July 4, 2021

Implications of Horror Fiction's Natural Antagonists

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 Copyright 2021 by Gary L. Pullman Bela Lugosi is Count Dracula. Source: Wikipedia . In a previous post, we considered the ethical and meta...
Friday, June 11, 2021

An Essay on the Monstrous

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 Copyright 2021 by Gary L. Pullman Source: Public domain What is “monstrous”? Does the concept change, thereby altering the understanding o...
Sunday, March 8, 2020

A Literary Critic Offers Some Tips for Writing Powerful Horror Stories, Part II

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Copyright 2020 by Gary L. Pullman In Shock Value; How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Inven...
Saturday, September 21, 2019

The Incomplete Completist

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Copyright 2019 by Gary L. Pullman In The Cat Pajamas's “Introduction: Alive and Kicking and Writing,” Ray Bradbury offers a clue to ...
Sunday, February 10, 2019

Title and Caption: The Horror of the Evocative

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Copyright 2019 by Gary L. Pullman Often, the titles and captions of horror movie posters are suggestive. They're enticing. They in...
Saturday, December 10, 2011

“An Ordinary Day, with Peanuts”: Shirley Jackson on The Problem of Evil

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman One way to gain insight concerning horror writers’ fiction and the techniques that the writers of ...
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Thursday, July 28, 2011

The Horror Writer's Muse: A Cautionary Tale

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman Shadows crawl across my wall, Dark remnants of Eden’s fall, Due to Adam’s sin; again, My brain r...
Monday, March 21, 2011

Not-So-Gratuitous Nudity, Part 2

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman Context helps to determine how onscreen nudity registers--how, in other words, a moviegoer interpr...
Sunday, September 5, 2010

Everyday Horrors: Bacteria!

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman Although some bacteria are, from a human point of view, good guys, many of them wear black hats or mon...