Quotes About Suspense

Sue and Andy Parlour's book Jack the Ripper: The Whitechapel Murders

I'm going to put death in all their food and watch them die.

Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page.

You don't know what can happen tomorrow. Life is like a novel, isn't it? It's filled with suspense. You never know what's going to happen until you turn the page.

Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page.

wet with it. In that same moment the room beyond the doorway was

And ... by the pricking of my thumbs, something morally ambiguous this way comes.

The mug had World's Best Secret Agent on one side and Please Don't Tell Anyone on the other. My

He stared into the car to see the face of a child-killer, but saw only a blur. The

I definitely love horror movies and all that for sure.

When a horror movie is well done, I love it and I put it up in esteem with any other genre.

I personally love a cliffhanger - I think it just extends the pleasure of viewing.

I saw Redeye, and I love being scared and on the edge of my seat.

I love it in a movie when they throw a guy off a cliff. I love it even when it's not a movie. No, especially when it's not a movie.

I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

The aposiopesis was icy.

Tendrils of fog crept along the cliffside we were climbing down, gathering thickly in the dips the trail made, swirling whenever I set my foot down in it, as if it were recoiling at the prospect of touching me. I tried not to think about movies I'd seen in which horrible things happened to people out in such heavy fog. You know the movies I'm talking about.

How about y'all take a seat now, and let's get right to business,' Muffy says as she tucks her cream-colored skirt beneath her in a ladylike manner. We all do as she suggested and take a seat, with the exception of Special Agent Lancaster, who declares he'd prefer to stand. I suppose if he sat down, the stick up his butt would lodge so deeply into his brain that he would instantly expire, and then we'd have another corpse on our hands, so it's just as well.

That's them," Gavin whispers. He grabs his reloader. "The pansies.

The Yard needs a young man for this, someone who's not afraid of tramping through muck to look at dead bodies and figure out how they got that way. He cast an apologetic sidelong glance at Miss Frost. I positively thrive on reports of gruesome murder, she said.

Jett Gallatin expected trouble in Alsop, Texas—but not zombies.

Maybe this was the quiet before the real fucking quiet.

Suspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it.