Showing posts with label haunted house. Show all posts
Showing posts with label haunted house. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 11, 2022

Hop-Frog: A Story of Reversals

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman   As a rule of thumb, a writer introduces his or her story’s protagonist before the antagonist makes an ...
Sunday, March 3, 2019

Developing a Sense of Horror

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Copyright 2019 by Gary L. Pullman Yesterday, as I walked through the house, I imagined the defensive and offensive actions that vari...
Saturday, July 14, 2018

Building Fear

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Copyright 2018 by Gary L. Pullman The architecture common to horror stories, whether novels, short stories, or movies, is conducive ...
Friday, October 28, 2011

How Much Does It Cost to be a Ghostbuster? (A LOT!)

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman You’ve probably seen these ghost hunter shows on television. (Supposedly, they’re “reality sho...
Saturday, August 27, 2011

Monstrous Signs

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman Haunted houses are easy. Well, the signs that a house may be haunted are easy to spot, anyway. Things ...
Saturday, June 4, 2011

Sex and Horror, Part 7

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman Although he employs psychoanalysis himself on rare occasions in his analyses of and commentaries upon ...
Tuesday, April 5, 2011

The Haunting of a House

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman More a fan of the idea of the haunted house, perhaps, than one who aspires to actually visit s...
Thursday, February 3, 2011

Ironic Settings

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman In my series concerning “ How To Haunt a House ” and my critical review of the movie The Descent , “ A ...