Showing posts with label terror. Show all posts
Showing posts with label terror. Show all posts
Sunday, March 22, 2020

Tagline Terror

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Copyright 2020 by Gary  L. Pullman Tag line (n).: a catchphrase or slogan, especially as used in advertising. Taglines. Some ...
Monday, May 13, 2019

Gahan Wilson's Poignant Moments of Existential Angst

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Copyright 2019 by Gary L. Pullman Wikipedia offers a brief, if succinct, albeit uncited, description of cartoonist Gahan Wilson...
Saturday, February 2, 2019

The Things We Fear

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Copyright 2019 by Gary L. Pullman They're big. They're repulsive. Shaped like sperm, they slither (as the title of the m...
Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Techniques of Terror

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Copyright 2018 by Gary L. Pullman Judging by the quality, rather than by the quantity, of one's work, Edgar Allan Poe is proba...
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...
Sunday, April 4, 2010

The Lull Before the Storm

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman Chiller Channel startles viewers by juxtaposing a serene scene against a horrific one. In one such inst...
Sunday, February 7, 2010

What Constitutes Horror?

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman What constitutes horror? The answer is both simple and complex. To understand the meaning of a word, it he...
Friday, December 18, 2009

Horror as Image and Word

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Copyright 2009 by Gary L. Pullman What’s scary? Deprivation. No, I don’t mean missing a meal or not being able to buy an outfit. I mean not ...
Sunday, April 19, 2009

Man Overboard: Questioning Nature and Its Creator

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Copyright 2009 by Gary L. Pullman It is not generally known, but Sir Winston Churchill, the prime minister of Great Britain during World War...