Showing posts with label irony. Show all posts
Showing posts with label irony. Show all posts
Saturday, August 25, 2018

Lawrence Block and the "Biter Bit" Plot

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Copyright 2018 by Gary L. Pullman Lawrence Block , who started his career as an author by writing erotic pulp fiction novels under ...
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 ...
Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Thesis and Demonstration: Philosophical Horror Fiction

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman Many of H. P. Lovecraft’s short stories, like those of Edgar Allan Poe’s tales, begin with a thesis-like a...
Thursday, January 7, 2010

Quick Tip: Irony and Its Uses in Horror Fiction

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman Since O. Henry (and before), writers have surprised readers by ending stories with surprises, or twists. T...
Monday, December 28, 2009

Quick Tip: Writing Means Reading

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Copyright 2009 by Gary L. Pullman It seems self-evident that writers must be (not should be, but must, be) readers. Every writer worth his o...
Sunday, December 27, 2009

Quick Tip: Writing the Short-Short Story

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Copyright 2009 by Gary L. Pullman A short-short story is a narrative that is under 1,000 words in length, It is often made up of only a sing...
Saturday, December 26, 2009

Quick Tip: Narrative Reversals

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Copyright 2009 by Gary L. Pullman   Most readers and writers know about plot twists, which usually result from situational irony--setting u...
Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Cemetery Dance, The First 10 Chapters and the Epilogue: A Study of Technique

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By Gary L. Pullman The use of situational irony; the introduction of new or recurring characters; the planting of clues; the descriptions of...
Monday, April 6, 2009

Building Horror and Suspense Tobe Hooper’s Way, Part 2

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Copyright 2009 by Gary L. Pullman In Eaten Alive at a Chainsaw Massacre: The Films of Tobe Hooper , John Kenneth Muir explains some of the n...
Thursday, April 2, 2009

Building Horror and Suspense Tobe Hooper’s Way

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Copyright 2009 by Gary L. Pullman In Eaten Alive at a Chainsaw Massacre: The Films of Tobe Hooper , John Kenneth Muir explains some of the ...