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Killing Mr. Griffin is a 1978 suspense novel by Lois Duncan about a group of teenaged students at a New Mexico high school, who plan to kidnap their strict English teacher, Mr. Griffin. Duncan developed the story from the character of Mark, who is involved in the kidnapping plan and is based on the first boyfriend of Duncan's oldest daughter. Mr.
Hoot is a 2002 children's mystery/suspense novel by Carl Hiaasen.The story takes place in Florida, where new arrival Roy makes two oddball friends and a bad enemy. Roy joins an effort to stop construction of a pancake house which would destroy a colony of burrowing owls who live on the site.
"August Heat" is a 1910 short story by W. F. Harvey, about two men, unknown to each other, whose look at the other's possible future suggests that one of them will be murdered and the other will be the murderer. It is often referred to as a ghost story (it appears in The Folio Society's Book of Ghost Stories, for example, and in Edward Gorey's ghost story collection The Haunted Look
Fear: 13 Stories of Suspense and Horror is a 2010 horror anthology edited by R. L. Stine. Thirteen different authors contributed stories to the anthology, including Meg Cabot, Heather Graham, F. Paul Wilson, and Stine himself. Stine began writing the anthology after the International Thriller Writers asked him to write a book with several ...
Jack Higgins, Dark Justice (2004) – suspense novel about a U.S. President; J. K Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, a fantasy novel in which Draco Malfoy is under orders to assassinate the headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry; Brent Weeks, The Night Angel Trilogy (2008) – fantasy series
The story then describes the detective's attempt to solve the mystery. There may also be subsidiary puzzles, such as why the crime was committed, and they are explained or resolved during the story. This format is the inversion of the more typical "whodunit", where all of the details of the perpetrator of the crime are not revealed until the ...
"Suffer the Little Children" was first published in the magazine Cavalier in February 1972. [citation needed] It was originally planned to be published in King's first collection of short stories, Night Shift, in 1978, but editor Bill Thompson opted to cut it for length (King had wanted to cut "Gray Matter", but deferred to Thompson's choice). [1]
Shivers is a series of thirty-six children's horror novels written by M.D. Spenser. These are horror novels, each 120–125 pages long, for readers between the ages of 8 and 14.