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This book presents a detailed academic study of suspense building in Stephen King's horror novels The Shining and Carrie and their respective film adaptations. Two film versions of each book are taken into consideration – one released immediately after the novel publication and one that appeared decades later. After providing a general idea of what suspense as a phenomenon related to fiction is, the study establishes some repeated plot-bound suspense motifs and episodes in the literary works, and traces their development in the films in order to demonstrate the similarities and differences in the techniques of achieving suspense in literature and in cinema. The model detailed here can also be used for individual or comparative suspense analysis of other literary or cinematic works.

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Maria Anastasova is a member of the Department of Germanic and Romance Languages at South-West University ""Neoft Rilski"", Bulgaria. She is particularly interested in the horror genre, and her publications include ""The Importance of the 'Symbiosis' between Language and Culture in Translation"" in The Language – A Phenomenon without Frontiers; ""Translation of Catholic Lexis from English into Bulgarian in the Context of a Novel by Oscar Wilde"" in Contrastive Linguistics; and ""The Fall of the House of Jack: The Ruin of Man in Stephen King's The Shining"" in Crossing Boundaries in Culture and Communication, among others.

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