All of which are creepy and chilling, if not quite sufficient for building a great work of suspense fiction.
Urgent investigative report and unforgettable drama, "Virunga" is a work of heart-wrenching tenderness and heart-stopping suspense.
It's a memoir, a Holocaust story, a detective story, both a rumination on and an analysis of narrative technique, a work of Old Testament and ancient Greek historiography, and a work of awful, heartbreaking, tragic suspense.
But it is also tedious, like a lot of works of suspense — the thriller "Sorry, Wrong Number," for instance, may be the longest eighty-nine minutes in motion-picture history.
Its technical craft is unimpeachable, along with its sharp character work, handling of suspense, and above all mastery of mood.
Vu Tran's forthcoming novel, Dragonfish, is a haunting work of noir literary suspense about a cop blackmailed into trying to find his Vietnamese ex-wife after she goes missing from the home she shares with her abusive new husband in Las Vegas.
That in turn reeled me into other, equally impressive shorts by its director, Henry K Norvalls – including Shower, a simple locker-room setup that manages to work up a lather of suspense and sexual curiosity in just seven minutes.
It was just the essential moving, working parts of suspense and terror".
Andrew Hacker, a professor of government at Cornell, wrote in 1964 that Mr. Kirk's writing was frequently exploited "to provide a philosophical gloss on current conservative stirrings". Besides his many scholarly books and articles, Dr. Kirk produced a number of works of mystery, suspense and fantasy in publications like the London Mystery Magazine and Fantasy and Science Fiction.
Beside Rossetti's passionate auburn stunners, Burne-Jones's figures are marmoreal, still and, in some of his best-known works, literally in a state of suspense within the picture frame.
