Chillers and Thrillers

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

Showing posts with label island. Show all posts
Showing posts with label island. Show all posts
Friday, September 20, 2019

Ray Bradbury's "The Island"

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Copyright 2019 by Gary L. Pullman   Although The Cat's Pajamas , published in 2004, may not be one of Ray Bradbury's fines...
Saturday, February 5, 2011

Horror Settings

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman Horror story settings often play upon the limits of human perception and the effects of such limitatio...
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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 ...
Saturday, January 8, 2011

Setting and Plot

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman Horror story settings often play upon the limits of human perception and the effects of such limitatio...
Friday, April 30, 2010

The Others: A Masterpiece of Situational Irony

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman The Others is a virtually perfect exercise in horror by way of situational irony. The viewer is led to be...
Thursday, February 26, 2009

Location, Location, Location!

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Copyright 2009 by Gary L. Pullman In series of stories which are related to a central theme, a plot device for generating new types of antag...
Monday, December 8, 2008

What’s So Scary About. . . .

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman Too often, writers write the way people too often speak: without thinking or, more specifically, without p...
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