Quotes About Suspense

So when things start going badly, you're invested in the characters in a way I think amplifies the horror and the fear because you're invested.

There's something nice and valuable and wonderful about the suspense and the classic horror that doesn't just crutch on blood and the almost pornographic view of fear.

I believe you can frighten people without showing their heads caved-in.

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

something, Mister Shock?

So, Abe's blood was spattered all over the walls of his office." Quinn traced a hand down the doorframe and looked at him meaningfully. "You might want to consider whether you really want the same people to come looking for you." He smiled without warmth as he made a business card appear. "Call me when you get it through your head that you're in danger.

A gas man?" Her pupils dilated, and the fine hairs on the back of her neck stood up.

We are," Quinn said. "We're doing all of the stuff you've seen on tri-d. But if you want to see your friend again, we need to know what you know.

Margery Allingham

Margery Allingham

Something from out in the dark brushed her throat, damp fingers smearing her with warm wetness. She started, raising a hand against it, but touched nothing. A teasing whisper in her ear – no, more a thought. Come to me … She glanced around to see if anyone else had heard, but those near her gazed eagerly ahead. Except the Riper; he watched her.

Horror is a situation, not a character, no matter how evil one may be.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

The whole scene seemed lit by a thousand dusty, forty-watt lightbulbs. He had to make a move. 'I need to get to my officer,' he said. Palmer didn't appear to be listening. Thorne took a step forwards, and in a second the gun was levelled at him. 'No!' Palmer shouted. Thorne was genuinely surprised. 'What are you playing at, Martin?' Palmer said nothing.

So, we've done murder," Danny whispers.

Hitchcock had a charm about him. He was very funny at times. He was incredibly brilliant in his field of suspense.

Don't cross me Scooby-Doo. I'm not an old man in a mask waiting to be thwarted by you meddling kids.

Horror films are very functional like comedies. The main thing with a comedy, the big question is "is it funny?" And with horror the question is "is it scary?"

It's a funny feeling, being suddenly airborne. Just as you realize it, it's over, and you're sinking.

You mean she doesn't intend to blow me up before the ceremony?" said Kai, taking the box. "How disappointing.

The first time you went out, you became mixed up with a group of radical political terrorists.""That could have happened to anyone!

Crime writers, I've noticed, can be jumpy. They live in a world where there are murderers on the loose and they haven't been caught yet!

My goal with Gravity Falls is to make people as paranoid and insane as I was as a child, and I'm delighted to see it's working!

I hope I'll keep people up at night, unable to stop turning pages. That's my goal: exhausted, emotionally drained readers who can't stop crying.