In the real world, people go out of their way to avoid unpleasant, nerve-wracking situations, yet turn in record droves to see thrillerst days of Hollywood. In Thrillers McCarty discuses top thrillers from Sparrows in 1926, to 1991's hit The Silence of the Lambs. Illustrated with hundreds of photos.
Thrillers: Seven Decades of Classic Film Suspense by John McCrary (Carol Publishing 1992) (791.43). The author names his fifty favorite suspense films from the 1920's into the 1990's. My rating: 6/10, finished 8/14/14.