Movie: Dead Snow
Setting: modern
Searched: cremation, body disposal, burn murder, bride burning, 'burn a body', funeral pyre, how long does it take for a body to burn (yay Yahoo answers), fire, flame temperature, flammability

My MCs have found themselves in the middle of a minor zombie apocalypse, and they've just decided on extermination by fire. ( Read more... )

A modern day vampire story.

( Hiding potentially triggering stuff - murder / killing people / body / blood / fire etc. )

I'm revising a story, and I previously had a character start a fire on a building to run the people out without knowing a bunch of important science and weapons technology was inside. During revision, I decided he's going to do it knowing full well that he's doing - now I'm trying to figure out if I should add nuclear weapons into the mix. It's ( Read more... )

This is a kind of tedious question, but it's extremely vital to my story and I'm worried about making it unrealistic.

Question in a nutshell: How long would it take an intense fire started by supernatural means to spread through an old building around the size of the Biltmore Estate?
Googled: fire spreading in brick buildings, how fast does fire ( Read more... )

Setting: USA, possibly New Jersey ( Read more... )

In a fantasy story with medieval-level technology I have a character who needs to light a candle in the woods with no other source of fire around.

Would flint and steel be her only option, or were there other methods? No magic allowed.

Hello. My writing partner and I have hit a bit of a snag in a story that we are writing because of one little detail ( Read more... )

Setting is modern day in a hot, dry, hilly, somewhat forested area in western America (probably northeast California), during daylight hours ( Read more... )

Multiple questions about burning bodies open-air style!

I have a race of humanoid creatures who have just been killed.  There are 11 of them in total.  Setting is a compound in the mountains at the onset of winter, containing about 150 children ranging in age from 6 to 16.  The new leader of the children has decided to dispose of the bodies by ( Read more... )

Setting: Central Asian steppes, about 1000 BCE ( Read more... )