Showing posts with label villain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label villain. Show all posts
Monday, March 26, 2012

The Ingredients of the Thriller

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Copyright 2012 by Gary L. Pullman In Thriller 2 , Clive Cussler introduces readers to the thriller, not as a novel but in its short st...
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Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Quick Tip: Make Your Villains Both Timely and Timeless, Both Particular and Universal

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman The nature of a monster is determined partly by the sociopolitical and cultural milieu of its time. It ...
Monday, June 7, 2010

Establishing Verisimilitude

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman Imagine a woman sitting on her porch, reading a letter. Across a bed of bright petunias, she is being watc...
Thursday, March 18, 2010

Quick Tip: Victimizing the Victim

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman Victims are important to horror, but one would hardly know it, for, from authors, critics, and readers, th...
Saturday, February 13, 2010

Quick Tip: Vilifying Villains

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman In popular fiction, including horror, it is to the writer’s advantage to make his or her villains despicab...

Vladimir Propp’s 31 Dramatic Situations and 7 Character Types

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman Russian formalist scholar Vladimir Propp analyzed his country’s fairy tales to identify their simplest nar...
Friday, April 11, 2008

Everyday Horrors: The Police

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman In more innocent times, parents taught their children that the police were their friends. Cops were good g...