Do you know where todays Horror films came from? Edgar Allen Poe and Alfred Hitchcock. They created what we call horoor today, to do so they used suspense in their art, in example how Poe used intriguing word choice and how Hitchcock used dramatic irony and camera angles.
Edgar Allen Poe used word choice to create suspense in the article “The Tell Tale Heart”. One exapmle of this is how he calls the old mans eye “the vulture eye” or “the evil eye”. Also, another way is repetition when he says “I undid the latern cautiously-oh so cautiously-cautiously-cautiosly each night when he gets into the room”.
Alfred Hitchcock showed his own ways of using suspense in his movie The Birds. He used