Showing posts with label madness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label madness. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 24, 2012

The Horror of the Incongruous

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copyright 2007 by Gary L. Pullman When something is deemed incongruous, it is (if not amusing) often horrifying. We are not shocked or ...
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Friday, November 11, 2011

The Machinery of Horror

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman Every horror story needs something to generate its action. Sometimes, this element is mentioned in...
Wednesday, September 15, 2010

What’s in a Name?: More (and Less) Than One Might Think

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman Anyone who has entered his or her name in an Internet image browser is likely, unless he or she has a ...
Friday, June 4, 2010

Imagined Horrors

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman And much of Madness, and more of Sin, And Horror the soul of the plot. -- Edgar Allan Poe, "The Conqu...
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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...
Sunday, November 16, 2008

Motivation as Explanation

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman In earlier posts, we have considered the nature of evil as various horror writers have defined it. Some h...
Monday, November 10, 2008

Danger, Will Robinson! Danger!

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman In the 1960’s, the X-Men trained in the Danger Room. A spacious chamber in their mansion, it was full of...
Thursday, November 6, 2008

Learning from the Masters: Robert McCammon, Part 2

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman Robert McCammon is the author of A Boy’s Life , Stinger , Swan Song , Gone South , and several other highl...
Friday, January 11, 2008

Writing As A Schizophrenic, Part I

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman “Two heads are better than one,” it’s been said (although, apparently nature or God disagrees). If we can...