Chillers and Thrillers

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

Showing posts with label mythology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mythology. Show all posts
Saturday, March 23, 2019

Plotting Board, Part 3

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Copyright 2019 by Gary L. Pullman In this post, I offer a few tips on plotting, many of which are implied, if not directly stated ...
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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Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Monstrous Variations

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman There’s a limit, perhaps, to the number of horror villains that the genre’s writers can imagine. ...
Saturday, February 28, 2009

Monster Mash, or How To Create A Monster

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Copyright 2009 by Gary L. Pullman Believe it or not, there is a science, as it were, of monsters. Known as teratology, the study sought to a...
Sunday, March 30, 2008

The Nature of the Beast

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Adam Smith points out, in The Theory of Moral Sentiments that, President B...
Saturday, January 12, 2008

A History of Hell, Part II

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman In their exhaustive survey of human civilization, historian Will Durant and his wife Ariel introduce many ...
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