Suspense, a state or feeling of being excited or anxious uncertainty about what 's going to happen. Something writers of horror and thrillers have mastered this technique of writing, horror stories are designed to make our pulses race and our skin tingle. A good story can lure you in and make you feel all types of emotions. Writers use several methods to create suspense, they use foreshadowing, they withhold information from the reader, to keep them reading obviously, they create suspense when a character we care about is in trouble or in a horrible situation and they need to choose between two dangerous courses of action. Sometimes they throw in reversals, a sudden change in a character 's situation from to bad or vice versa. For example someone is enjoying a quiet evening at home when they hear a startling noise coming from the basement. According to statistics the majority of people enjoy suspenseful anything! …show more content…
W.F Havey created some suspense when he wrote “August Heat” the genre of suspense short story is fiction, horror, and mystery. He created a suspense in by use of the setting, point of view, and foreshadowing to give an attention and to find out what will happen next. This story gets really when James does not expect the unexpected. James Clarence Withencroft one of the characters in the story is a forty year old artist in the middle class, he is in perfect health condition. He seemed like your average normal guy, but then it was revealed that he was alone, his only near relative was his sister but she passed away, but W.F Harvey didn’t tell us how which made me want to keep