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Suspense is a feeling of uncertainty and anxiety about the outcome of certain actions, most often referring to an audience's perceptions in a dramatic work. Suspense is not exclusive to fiction, though. Suspense may operate in any situation where there is a lead up to a big event or dramatic moment, with tension being a primary emotion felt as part of the situation. In the kind of suspense described by film director Alfred Hitchcock, an audience experiences suspense when they expect something bad to happen and have (or believe they have) a superior perspective on events in the drama's hierarch...more

Most Read This Week Tagged "Suspense"

The Mystery Woman (Ladies of Lantern Street, #2)

Bare It All (Love Undercover, #2; Men Who Walk the Edge of Honor, #5)

The Ophelia Cut (Dismas Hardy Mystery, #14)

The Blood Gospel (The Order of the Sanguines, #1)

Unintended Consequences (Stone Barrington, #26)

This Is Who I Am (Masters of the Shadowlands, #7)

The Rules for Disappearing (The Rules for Disappearing #1)

Betrayed: Days of the Rogue (Law of the Lycans, #2.5)

Strands of Bronze and Gold (Strands of Bronze and Gold, #1)

First Family (Sean King & Michelle Maxwell, #4)

The King's Deception (Cotton Malone, #8)

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Quotes Tagged "Suspense"

“I love you, Katherine James. I love you with everything I am. You're the best thing that has ever happened to me. Remember that." Gabe Rossiter”
― Pamela Clare, Naked Edge

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“Roarke: You'd enjoy flying more if you'd learn the controls. Eve: I'd rather pretend I'm on the ground. Roarke: And how many vehicles have you wrecked, had blown up, or destroyed in the last, oh, two years? Eve: Think about that, then imagine it happening when I'm at the wheel at thirty thousand feet. Roarke: Good point. I'll do the flying.”
― J.D. Robb, Kindred in Death

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