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Quotes About Suspense

...that horrible moment of suspense when the artist shows one of his creations to strange eyes for the first time.
~ Irving Stone
Any time a new horror film comes out that looks appealing, I'm always excited to go see it.
~ Alexandra Breckenridge
Something that had the quality of a dimly lit stage set just before the curtains rise on opening night. There was a rhythm to it, a beckoning, and a bittersweet tear in time.
~ Chris Abani
I went to get a detective story. You have to kill time. But time will kill me too - and there´s the true, preestablished balance.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
The key word for my book The Woman in Black is unsettling... because you're not terrified all of the time or even frightened, but you're unsettled and once you're unsettled, then the door's open.
~ Susan Hill
'Buried Alive' is a little scary, but also a comedy at the same time.
~ Tobin Bell
there was a light behind him. He got up and stretched his neck out about a minute, listening. Then he says: Who dah? He listened some more; then he come tiptoeing down and stood right between us; we could a touched him, nearly.
~ Mark Twain
I know I am not capable of suffering more than I did during those few minutes of suspense in the dark, surrounded by those creeping, bloody-minded tarantulas. I
~ Mark Twain
Since when did you bring a gun? Navidson asks, crouching near the door. Are you kidding me? This place is scary .
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
I stopped going out. Nothing could distract me. I felt like I was losing control. Something terrible was going to happen. Eventually something terrible did happen.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
He was hanging from one of the rafters in a laundry up near Frau Diller's. Another human pendulum. Another clock, stopped.
~ Markus Zusak
Sunflowers for Sarita is a fast-paced, high caliber romantic suspense. I couldn't stop reading!
~ Mary Alice Monroe
Arthur Conan Doyle
~ Transylvania.
Arthur Conan Doyle
~ Gesellschaft
than theories, after all. My view of the case is confirmed. There is a trapdoor communicating with the roof, and
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
heard the creature
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Stangerson too!" he muttered. "The plot thickens.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle
~ Philosophy.—Nil.
screened by a young beech. Where the two walls joined, several bricks had been loosened, and the crevices left were worn down and rounded upon the lower side, as though they had frequently been used as a ladder. Holmes clambered up, and taking the dog from me he dropped it over upon the other side. "There's the print of Wooden-leg's
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
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~ the meantime
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~ melancholy vigil
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~ florid-faced
Arthur Conan Doyle
~ not help laughing
walking calendar of crime
~ Arthur Conan Doyle