Writing Suspense Like Alfred Hitchcock

  Award-winning documentary filmmaker and author, Tony Lee Moral, offers some advice for aspiring suspense writers as he breaks down a few key techniques for writing suspense like Alfred Hitchcock.        What suspense techniques did Hitchcock use that are applicable for fiction writers? Hitchcock gave the audience more information than the character to […]

Ten of the Best Modern Suspense Novels That Will Make You Check the Lock On Your Door

Ten of the Best Modern Suspense Novels The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris The Silence of The Lambs, which follows the tentative relationship between FBI trainee Clarice Starling and incarcerated serial murderer Hannibal Lecter, is the quintessential thriller. Lecter’s psychological manipulation of the young Starling is as chilling on the page as it […]