Quotes About Suspense

Arthur Conan Doyle

That will do," cried Holmes. "What became of him?

Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle

scene. "Ask what you like, Mr. Holmes," said he eagerly. "It is a bad thing to speak of, but I will answer you the truth." "Tell me about last night." "Well, Mr. Holmes, I supped there, as the vicar has said, and my elder brother George proposed a game of whist afterwards. We sat down about nine o'clock. It was a quarter-past ten when I moved to go. I left them all round the table, as merry as could be." "Who let you out?

Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle

Why are these two gallant allies battling each other to the bitter end?? ..... mainly to get you to buy this mag and see the answer inside! ( If we can't always be clever, we can at least be honest!) (Tales of Suspense #58)

If you have a rifle, hanging on the wall in the first act, it should fire in the last act".

Stephanie Laurens

Stephanie Laurens

The dead man and the living man exchanged a long look. Then the youth cautiously put one hand behind him and brought it against a tree. Leaning upon this he retreated, step by step, with his face still toward the thing. He feared that if he turned his back the body might spring up and stealthily pursue him.

The German today is like the June Bride. He knows he is going to get it, but he doesn't know how big it is going to be.

The art of the pitch was to keep it clear, quick, with a good sense of suspense toward a climax, leading to a single conclusion. It had to be a story, in other words.

I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud.

Want a balloon?

There's an old rule of theater that goes, 'If there's a gun on the mantel in Act I, it must go off in Act III.' The reverse is also true.

As I said at the beginning, this is a horror story.

Bool! The end.

You know how it's going to end, but instead of spoiling things, that somehow increases your fascination. It's like watching a kid run his electric train faster and faster and waiting for it to derail on one of the curves.

Passage between worlds. Then the gunfire. Then the killing.

Death in the horror movies is when the monsters get you.

They reminded Luke of twins in some old horror movie.

Fasten your seatbelts and prepare for turbulence: you're flying into . . . the Roland Zone!