Suspense

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

The Vanishing Year
Stalking Jack the Ripper (Stalking Jack the Ripper, #1)
And the Trees Crept In
Only Daughter
Because I'm Watching (Virtue Falls, #3)
The Secret Keepers
Entrapment (Infidelity, #4)
Transfer (The Retrieval Duet, #2)
Darktown
The Family Plot
Nitro's Torment (Sydney Storm MC #2)
Reckless Creed (Ryder Creed, #3)
Darkest Journey (Krewe of Hunters, #20)
Twilight at Blueberry Barrens (Sunset Cove #3)
The Dead Boyfriend (Fear Street Relaunch, #5)

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