Die By The Pen

Die By The Pen

Does “Dramatically Expanded” mean it was expanded a lot, or it was expanded with more melodramatic scenes?

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Hitch
3 years ago

“Live by the pen…die by it too.”

Lord, please, let me keep my damn mouth shut….

Naaman Brown
Naaman Brown
3 years ago
Reply to  Hitch

Live by the pen,
Die by the pen,
But don’t fall in.

The hogs won’t leave anything but your head and pig poop.

Naaman Brown
Naaman Brown
3 years ago

“Someone is killing famous authors by the methods in their stories.”

There is a trope of a killer killing people copying methods in an author’s stories.

In Robert Bloch’s novel “Strange Eons” (1978) people are killed by methods described in H.P. Lovecraft’s stories.

In the film “The Raven” (2012) people are killed by methods described in Edgar Allan Poe’s stories.

It could become a genre.

dtw
dtw
3 years ago
Reply to  Naaman Brown

There’s Basic Instinct, too, IIRC (though the author there was fictional).
Theater of Blood, for Shakespeare-plot-inspired offings, anyone?

WarGoat
WarGoat
3 years ago
Reply to  Nathan

The Phibes movies were awesome. Horror + Dry British humor.

Julie
Julie
3 years ago
Reply to  Naaman Brown

The TV show “Castle” started like this.

Matthew
Matthew
3 years ago
Reply to  Naaman Brown

In The Bone Collector (1997 Book and 1999 Movie), a killer is killing people via methods used in a fictional book also called The Bone Collector.

Naaman Brown
Naaman Brown
3 years ago
Reply to  Naaman Brown

Wow. It is an established subgenre already.
Someone could issue a dvd set. “Ala Murder Mysteries”
But I’m not sure I want to see it done to death.