Showing posts with label threat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label threat. Show all posts
Friday, June 11, 2021

An Essay on the Monstrous

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 Copyright 2021 by Gary L. Pullman Source: Public domain What is “monstrous”? Does the concept change, thereby altering the understanding o...
Tuesday, April 14, 2020

The Horror of Objective and Subjective Threats

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Copyright 2020 by Gary L. Pullman Some horror fiction, both on the page and on the sound stage, features threats which are both ob...
Friday, January 13, 2012

Metaphorical Monsters

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copyright 2007 by Gary L. Pullman In high school, we learned that a metaphor is a figure of speech that explicitly states a comparison bet...
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...
Sunday, October 12, 2008

Plot Meets Laws of Motion

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman Since writers tend to look for metaphors everywhere, they’re apt to find some of them in the strangest pla...
Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Threat Recognition: Keeping It Real

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Copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman Most of us, if we survive our childhoods--no easy task, often--develop the ability to distinguish threaten...
Saturday, December 29, 2007

Value as a Clue to Horror

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Copyright 2007 by Gary L. Pullman Life is always fragile. One might suppose, however, that, before the advancements in science and technolog...
Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Understanding Monsters

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copyright 2007 by Gary L. Pullman Today, when we think of monsters, we envision something like Frankenstein’s creature, a troll, or a miss...