Chillers and Thrillers
is a blog on the theory and practice of writing horror fiction.
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Thursday, June 7, 2018
Creating Hostile or Threatening Settings
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Copyright 2018 by Gary L. Pullman Writers of horror fiction have several ways by which to suggest threatening or hostile environments....
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Writing an Effective Title
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Copyright 2009 by Gary L. Pullman Ideally, like a movie tagline, an effective title should snare its reader’s attention, suggest the novel’s...
Sunday, November 2, 2008
The Vagabond Menace
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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman The Ancient Mariner relates his tale to the Wedding Guest. In Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem The Rime of t...
Friday, September 12, 2008
Toward a Taxonomy of Horror Fiction
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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman “Taxonomy” is a fancy word for classification system--a sort of intellectual file cabinet for grouping thi...
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Perennial Favorites
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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman The ingredients of the horror plot are relatively few and relatively simple: A series of bizarre incidents...
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