Chillers and Thrillers

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

Showing posts with label loss. Show all posts
Showing posts with label loss. Show all posts
Saturday, September 29, 2018

The Effects of Loss as a Paradigm of Literary Criticism for Horror Fiction

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Copyright 2018 by Gary L. Pullman Horror fiction is a literature of loss. The losses, of course, are significant: no one has ever writ...
Saturday, August 18, 2018

Horror Fiction: The Appeal of the Need to Achieve

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Copyright 2018 by Gary L. Pullman No one has ever written a horror novel or filmed a horror movie about a protagonist stubbing his ...
Friday, November 25, 2011

A Dirty Little Secret About Horror Movies: They Hurt So Good!

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman We say that we fear death, disability, insensibility, insanity, incarceration, apathy or hatred, p...
Wednesday, March 18, 2009

The Monsters and Heroes of Fiction (Are The Monsters and Heroes of the Self)

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Copyright 2009 by Gary L. Pullman Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. -- James 4:7 Anything goes wrong in one’s life, from birth t...
Monday, September 29, 2008

Hell on Earth

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Copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman In previous posts, we argued that horror fiction is about the survival of loss and that the monsters it fe...
Saturday, December 29, 2007

Value as a Clue to Horror

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Copyright 2007 by Gary L. Pullman Life is always fragile. One might suppose, however, that, before the advancements in science and technolog...
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