Showing posts with label religion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label religion. Show all posts
Thursday, July 1, 2021

Ethical and Metaphysical Implications of Supernatural Villains

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 Copyright 2021 by Gary L. Pullman    Twisted Tales series. Source: Amazon Like all other genres of fiction, the literature of horror, a typ...
Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Eros by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Analysis and Commentary

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Copyright 2020 by Gary L. Pullman   The sense of the world is short, Long and various the report,— To love and be belo...
Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Religious and Scientific Accounts of Sex Demons

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Copyright 2020 by Gary L. Pullman In Eros and Evil , R. E. L. Masters theorizes that the accounts of sex with demons that women ...
Sunday, March 8, 2020

A Literary Critic Offers Some Tips for Writing Powerful Horror Stories, Part II

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Copyright 2020 by Gary L. Pullman In Shock Value; How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Inven...
Saturday, March 7, 2020

A Literary Critic Offers Some Tips for Writing Powerful Horror Stories

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Copyright 2020 by Gary L. Pullman In Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Inv...
Tuesday, September 24, 2019

From Complacency to Narcissism

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Copyright 2019 by Gary L. Pullman For a while, Hollywood milked extraterrestrial creatures as its “other” of the day. Their ap...
Tuesday, January 11, 2011

William Peter Blatty’s "Dimiter": The Creator and His Creation, or the Mind Beyond Nature

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman The flyleaf to William Peter Blatty’s novel Dimiter (2010) gives a succinct and intriguing synops...
Friday, June 11, 2010

The Vanishing: Why Theme Matters

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman A horror novel does not hang entirely upon the explanation of the horror, perhaps, but a good amount of re...
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Sunday, May 30, 2010

Religious Fundamentalism Is Not the Answer in "The Vanishing"

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman In a previous post , I addressed Bentley Little’s thematic use of aberrant sexuality in The Vanishing , o...