Quotes About Suspense

I love the spy genre.

If the hairs on my neck stand up while I'm writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.

Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.

I love 'The Killing', I love 'Homeland' and 'Mad Men', all those shows that lean into the tone of things.

I did not dare look back at Domenico. Sprawled catlike in the silver chair, he was watching me; I could feel his eyes resting on my bare shoulders as actual as a touch.

It is always pleasant to divulge a secret under dramatic circumstances.

I'm a movie nerd, and when I'm really looking forward to something coming out, the less I know, the better.

I actually can't watch blood and gore and all those things. I watch Netflix shows with my hand over my face, like, peeking out. Which is funny, because I'm on sets all the time, and I know how those effects are done.

'The Shining,' 'A Nightmare on Elm Street,' 'Halloween.' Those are the greats.

I feel that in horror movies, especially, if you don't care about the characters, you've lost the audience. No one cares, and it becomes a process of watching people get killed.

Well, Ms. Fontaine, you look damn good for a dead woman. Her response was to narrow her eyes, arch a brow. If that's some sort of cop humor, I'm afraid you'll have to translate.

She felt her heart beating in her throat when the man in the mask began to chant again.

Girls, to her mind, suffered an agony of suspense and an embarrassing passivity during prom season.

Alan had still stopped her in her tracks with one of those slow, devastating kisses at her side door.He hadn't insisted on coming in.Shelby might have been grateful for that if she hadn't suspected it was just part of his planned siege.Confuse the enemy, assail her with doubts, leave her with her nerve ends tingling.Very clever strategy.

Matherson was

pot-boiling thriller in a steamy bubble bath, but

Either an ancient cursed Egyptian mummy has come back to life and is trying to kill the people next door, or they're watching a movie.

Annabelle, I'm going to kill you! I cried, frowning at the mess. Then I glanced down the stairway and gasped. It looked like someone had beaten me to it.

There was a memory and a promise of blood in the air.

Why do boys always love talking about ghosts and murders and hangings?' 'Because it's exciting,' Wendell said.

No hay mayor placer que el terror. Siempre y cuando sea el de otra persona

Josh Thomas was sitting in Egan's study, reading a chemical analysis journal, when he froze in fright. The rug in the center of the room suddenly rose from the floor as if a ghost were inside and then flew aside. A trapdoor beneath swung open and Pitt's head popped up like a jack-in-the-box. "Sorry to intrude," said Pitt with a cheery smile. "But I just happened to be passing by.

She turned his

Clive Cussler