Once Hardy created it, all serial writers used the cliff-hanger even though Anthony Trollope felt that the use of suspense violated " all proper confidence between the author and his reader.

Thus was the earth created, when it was formed by the Heart of Heaven, the Heart of Earth, as they are called who first made it fruitful, when the sky was in suspense, and the earth was submerged in the water.

* The long running suspense series In Death, created by Nora Roberts under the pseudonym of J. D.

Herrmann also created the music for Welles's CBS radio series the Orson Welles Show ( 1941 – 1942 ), which included the debut of his wife Lucille Fletcher's suspense classic, The Hitch-Hiker ; Ceiling Unlimited ( 1942 ), a program conceived to glorify the aviation industry and dramatize its role in World War II ; and The Mercury Summer Theatre on the Air ( 1946 ).

The suspense is created by the author having the reader share the perpetrator's thoughts — up to a point, that is — and having them guess what is going to happen next ( for example, another murder, or a potential victim making a fatal mistake ), and if the criminal will be brought to justice in the end.

Waugh's police novel lacks " action " in the form of dangerous situations from which the characters can only make a narrow escape, but the book is nonetheless a page-turner of a novel, with all the suspense for the readers created through their being able to witness each and every step the police take in order to solve the crime.

However, in most cases it is not clear at all whether the accused is guilty of the crime or not — this is how suspense is created.

Mock executions are common in fiction as easy suspense can be created by having the protagonist subjected to what turns out to be only a mock execution, such as in the Spike Lee film Inside Man, or V for Vendetta.

He believes Potter created a good mix of suspense and tension, intermixed with lulls in the action.

Additional music cues were created by recycling music from other parts of the film-typically reusing suspense passages in scenes for which they were not written.

The suspense at the end of the famous Grave introduction is created, as is often the case with Solomon, by a scrupulous adherence to the text and whilst others may be more storming and indeed rampant in the following Allegro di molto e con brio few could rival Solomon's overall command.

Michiko Kakutani liked the " myriad of small, telling details and a reverence for their very ordinariness ", and the suspense created that threatens these.

It was created with the then-new Storyspace software, deployed the ambiguity and dubious narrator characteristic of high modernism, along with some suspense and romance elements, in a story whose meaning could change dramatically depending on the path taken through its lexias on each reading.

Although readers had already complained about the suspense created at the end of A Princess of Mars, Burroughs once again, produced a story with a cliff hanger ending.

In the case of Ottaway v Norman Ch., Brightman J held that a floating obligation attaches to secret trusts: " A valid trust is created in favour of the secondary donee which is in suspense during the lifetime of the donee, but attaches to the estate of the primary donee at the moment of the latter's death.

* Despite the fact that the author created enough suspense for a sequel, with the possibility of a next generation GS team, he finished this Manga at volume 39 with no sign of ever making a sequel.

The " shock ending " finale is effective even while it upholds horror-film convention, its suspense sequences are buttressed by teen comedy tropes, and its use of split-screen, split-diopter and slow motion shots tell the story visually rather than through dialogue.

But Griffith's first use of cross-cutting in The Fatal Hour, made in July 1908, has a much stronger suspense story served by this construction than those in the earlier Pathé examples.

* In his short story The Harbor Master, by Robert W. Chambers, the discovery and attempted recovery of the last known pair of Great Auks is central to the plot ( which also involves a proto-Lovecraftian element of suspense ).

* The Tavolara military base appears in The Lovers by Morris West, a suspense novel set during the Cold War.

An example of the murder mystery and suspense thriller genres in the collection, with multiple plot twists and detective fiction elements was " The Three Apples ", also known as Hikayat al-sabiyya ' l-muqtula (" The Tale of the Murdered Young Woman "), one of the tales narrated by Scheherazade in the One Thousand and One Nights.

Critics often dismissed Hailey's success as the result of a formulaic " potboiler " style, in which he caused an ordinary character to become involved in a crisis, then increased the suspense by switching among multiple related plot lines.

Lorre made nine movies altogether with Sydney Greenstreet counting The Maltese Falcon and Casablanca, most of them variations on the latter film, including Background to Danger ( 1943, with George Raft ); Passage to Marseille ( 1944, reteaming them with Casablanca stars Humphrey Bogart and Claude Rains ); The Mask of Dimitrios ( 1944, with character actor Greenstreet receiving top billing ); The Conspirators ( 1944, with Hedy Lamarr and Paul Henreid ); Hollywood Canteen ( 1944 ); Three Strangers ( 1946 ), a suspense film about three people who are joint partners on a winning lottery ticket starring top-billed Greenstreet, Geraldine Fitzgerald, and third-billed Lorre cast against type by director Jean Negulesco as the romantic lead ; and Greenstreet and Lorre's final film together, suspense thriller The Verdict ( 1946 ), director Don Siegel's first movie, with Greenstreet and Lorre finally billed first and second, respectively.

Gerald's Game ( 1992 ) is a suspense novel by Stephen King.

Rear Window is a 1954 American suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, written by John Michael Hayes and based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story " It Had to Be Murder ".

is a suspense novel by Henry Farrell published in 1960 by Rinehart & Company.

: The story told by this diary is tonight's tale of ... suspense.

The Exorcist is a novel of supernatural suspense by William Peter Blatty, published by Harper & Row in 1971.

When the votes are read, the order that the votes are pulled has also usually been manipulated by production to extract the most suspense from the players during the tally.

" However, Universal then offered him the chance to direct The Day of the Jackal ( 1973 ), based on the best-selling suspense novel by Frederick Forsyth.

Variety wrote: " Based on the novel by Arthur Hailey, over-produced by Ross Hunter with a cast of stars as long as a jet runway, and adapted and directed by George Seaton in a glossy, slick style, Airport is a handsome, often dramatically involving $ 10 million epitaph to a bygone brand of filmmaking " but added that the film " does not create suspense because the audience knows how it's going to end.

He played the mad Roman emperor Caligula in an uncompleted 1937 film version of Robert Graves's novel I, Claudius ( with Charles Laughton ); a kindly veterinarian who accidentally causes the death of a murderess ( played by Bette Davis ) in the 1952 suspense drama Another Man's Poison ; and the fool Wamba in the 1952 Ivanhoe ( with Robert Taylor and Elizabeth Taylor ).

The segments, all written by suspense writer Richard Matheson, were named after the women involved in the plot: a plain college professor who seduces a student (" Julie "), a pair of sisters who squabble over their father's inheritance (" Millicent and Therese "), and the lonely recipient of a cursed Zuni fetish that comes to life and pursues her relentlessly (" Amelia ").

Christie's stories are also known for their taut atmosphere and strong psychological suspense, developed from the deliberately slow pace of her prose.

Although no murder occurs in Gaudy Night, it is not without a great deal of suspense and psychological thrills.

Successors of the psychological suspense novel include Patricia Highsmith's This Sweet Sickness ( 1960 ), Simon Brett's A Shock to the System ( 1984 ), and Stephen Dobyns's The Church of Dead Girls ( 1997 ).

* The psychological suspense: This specific sub-genre of the thriller genre also incorporates elements from detective fiction, as the protagonist must solve the mystery of the psychological conflict presented in these types of stories.

" The New York Herald Tribune called Séance on a Wet Afternoon " the perfect psychological suspense thriller and a flawless film to boot " while The New York Times stated " it isn ’ t often you see a melodrama that sends you forth with a lump in your throat, as well as a set of muscles weary from being tense for nigh two hours.

Starting with writers like Francis Iles, who has been described as " the father of the psychological suspense novel as we know it today ," more and more authors laid the emphasis on character rather than plot.

Phone Booth is a 2002 American suspense / psychological thriller film about a man who is held hostage in a telephone booth by a sniper.

Her novels explore psychological suspense, as was popular for many decades, and has ‘ an especially strong way of sharing with readers the minds of female characters confronting hazards and crisis ’.

* Francis Iles's Malice Aforethought ( 1931 ) is seen by many as the first, and better, experiment in psychological suspense fiction, with The 12. 30 from Croydon just a pale imitation of Iles's novel.

Barbara Owens ( 1934, Carrollton, IL – 2008, San Jose, CA ) was a psychological suspense writer.

The Daily Mirror of October 28, 1971 said, " With this first-rate story Dame Agatha triumphantly returns to the traditional detective novel after a spell of psychological suspense.

Rather than action or high politics, the novel builds its suspense by focusing on the psychological burdens of the pawns in the game: doubt and paranoia bred by a culture of secrecy, the sophisticated amorality of the men at the top, and above all, loyalties ( to whom and what and at what cost?