Chillers and Thrillers

is a blog on the theory and practice of writing horror fiction.

Showing posts with label extraterrestrial life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label extraterrestrial life. Show all posts
Friday, January 13, 2012

Metaphorical Monsters

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copyright 2007 by Gary L. Pullman In high school, we learned that a metaphor is a figure of speech that explicitly states a comparison bet...
Friday, November 25, 2011

A Dirty Little Secret About Horror Movies: They Hurt So Good!

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman We say that we fear death, disability, insensibility, insanity, incarceration, apathy or hatred, p...
Wednesday, December 16, 2009

The Reestablishment of Order as the Restoration of Faith

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Copyright 2009 by Gary L. Pullman Horror fiction often establishes a norm that it then violates. In Stephen King‘s fiction, the norm is usu...
Monday, January 7, 2008

Imagining the Monster, Part II

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Copyright 2007 by Gary L. Pullman We saw, in Part I of “Imagining the Monster,” how H. R. Giger’s design of the extraterrestrial creature in...
Saturday, December 29, 2007

Value as a Clue to Horror

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Copyright 2007 by Gary L. Pullman Life is always fragile. One might suppose, however, that, before the advancements in science and technolog...
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