The Suspense of Horror and the Horror of Suspense
The Suspense of Horror and the Horror of Suspense

Author: Maria Anastasova

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2018-10-12

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 152751904X

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This book presents a detailed academic study of suspense building in Stephen King’s horror novels The Shining and Carrie and their respective film adaptations. Two film versions of each book are taken into consideration – one released immediately after the novel publication and one that appeared decades later. After providing a general idea of what suspense as a phenomenon related to fiction is, the study establishes some repeated plot-bound suspense motifs and episodes in the literary works, and traces their development in the films in order to demonstrate the similarities and differences in the techniques of achieving suspense in literature and in cinema. The model detailed here can also be used for individual or comparative suspense analysis of other literary or cinematic works.

Tales of Horror and Suspense
Tales of Horror and Suspense

Author: Edgar Allan Poe

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780486428444

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Eight ingenious, gripping tales by the master of suspense and creator of the American Gothic horror story: "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Tell-Tale Heart," "William Wilson," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Cask of Amontillado," "The Gold-Bug," "The Purloined Letter, and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue." Classic, spine-tingling tales for ghost story enthusiasts.

The House Next Door
The House Next Door

Author: Anne Rivers Siddons

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2007-07-03

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 1416553444

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The house next door to the Kennedys appears to be haunted by an all-pervasive evil, and the couple watches as a succession of owners becomes engulfed by the sinister force, until the Kennedys set out to destroy the house themselves.

Dark Dreams
Dark Dreams

Author: Brandon Massey

Publisher: Dafina Books

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 9780758207531

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A collection of short fiction explores the dark imaginations and experiences of the human mind in tales of horror and duspense by Zane, Tanarive Due, Stephen Barnes, Robert Fleming, and other African-American authors.

Lighthouse Horrors
Lighthouse Horrors

Author: Charles Waugh

Publisher: Down East Books

Published: 1993-01-01

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1461740991

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Storm-swept, remote light stations—and the isolated souls who man the beacons—are the perfect inspirations for tales of suspense and horror. Lighthouse Horrors collects 17 of the best from such writers as Rudyard Kipling, Robert Bloch, Jack Vance, and Ray Bradbury. This is a book to save for a fogbound or rain-dark night. Once you've read these pages, you'll never look at a lighthouse in quite the same way again.

The Ruins
The Ruins

Author: Scott Smith

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2006-07-18

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0307266044

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Trapped in the Mexican jungle, a group of friends stumble upon a creeping horror unlike anything they could ever imagine in "the best horror novel of the new century" (Stephen King). Also a major motion picture! Two young couples are on a lazy Mexican vacation—sun-drenched days, drunken nights, making friends with fellow tourists. When the brother of one of those friends disappears, they decide to venture into the jungle to look for him. What started out as a fun day-trip slowly spirals into a nightmare when they find an ancient ruins site ... and the terrifying presence that lurks there. "The Ruins does for Mexican vacations what Jaws did for New England beaches.” —Entertainment Weekly “Smith’s nail-biting tension is a pleasure all its own.... This stuff isn’t for the faint of heart.” —New York Post “A story so scary you may never want to go on vacation, or dig around in your garden, again.” —USA Today

Dark Forces
Dark Forces

Author: Kirby McCauley

Publisher: New Amer Library

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 538

ISBN-13: 9780451162212

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This is the ultimate feast of fear by a host of horror writers such as Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, Ramsey Campbell, and others. Twenty-four macabre tales include the nerve-twisting novelette The Mist by Stephen King.

The Breakdown
The Breakdown

Author: B a Paris

Publisher: HarperCollins Australia

Published: 2017-02-01

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1489217118

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From the bestselling author of Behind Closed Doors If you can't trust yourself, who can you trust? It all started that night in the woods. Cass Anderson didn't stop to help the woman in the car, and now that woman is dead. Ever since, silent calls have been plaguing Cass and she's sure someone is watching her every move. It doesn't help that she's forgetting everything, too. Where she left the car, if she took her pills, the house alarm code – and whether the knife in the kitchen really had blood on it. Bestselling author B A Paris is back with a brand new psychological thriller full of twists and turns that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

999
999

Author: Al Sarrantonio

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 828

ISBN-13: 9780340748602

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With authors ranging from Stephen King to Steven Spruill, this anthology of horror fiction aims to showcase some of the genre's newer stars as well as many older and more established writers.