Showing posts with label fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fiction. Show all posts
Friday, March 11, 2022

The Problem-Solution Plot

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 Copyright 2022 by Gary L. Pullman In some horror movies, the plot is structured by attempting to solve a problem to no avail. Such plots ...
Wednesday, November 24, 2021

What Scares Me and, More Importantly, What Scares YOU?

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 Copyright 2021 by Gary L. Pullman The L ist Challenges website depicts “A List of 100 Common (And Not So Common) Fears. Maybe some of you...
Saturday, July 31, 2021

Recommended Reading

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Copyright 2021 by Gary L. Pullman     Ambrose Bierce: “ The Damned Thing ,” “ A Tough Tussle ” Bierce's ideas are original and intrigu...
Tuesday, July 6, 2021

Christian Explanations of Vampires, Werewolves, and Witches

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 Copyright 2021 by Gary L. Pullman When Christianity became the dominant religion of the Western world in 313, beginning with Emperor Const...
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...
Tuesday, June 1, 2021

Vocational Horror: The Tools of Its Trade

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 Copyright 2021 by Gary L. Pullman   A device often used to generate plots is to imagine a vocational role that, given a dark twist, produce...
Thursday, March 18, 2021

Describing Images of Horror: Part 2

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 Copyright 2021 by Gary L. Pullman   At the end of the initial post about this topic, I ended with this poster promoting the 1981 film Pos...