Showing posts with label fate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fate. Show all posts
Sunday, January 12, 2014

Images of Horror as Not-So-Friendly Reminders

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copyright 2014 by Gary Pullman Bodies severed at their waists. Eyes without irises or pupils. Furry faces full of fangs. Cheeks st...
Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Nature and Nurture: Character and Setting as Destiny

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copyright 2007 by Gary L. Pullman Why did you throw the jack of hearts away? It was the only card in the deck I had left to play. -- ...
Thursday, December 31, 2009

Humor versus Horror

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Copyright 2009 by Gary L. Pullman In the sexist teen sex comedy, 100 Girls , college student Matthew (no last name) has sex with a coed stud...
Monday, May 5, 2008

Guest Speaker: H. P. Lovecraft: Supernatural Horror In Literature, Part VII

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VII. Edgar Allan Poe In the eighteen-thirties occurred a literary dawn directly affecting not only the history of the weird tale, but that o...
Monday, April 21, 2008

Horror Fiction and the Problem of Evil

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman One of the arguments for God’s existence is the teleological argument (also known as the argument from des...
Friday, February 1, 2008

The Guide to Supernatural Fiction: A Review (Part II)

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman In A Guide to Supernatural Literature, Everett F. Bleiler, of Kent State University, identifies six “state...
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...