Fountain of Knowledge

One of the scariest scenes I ever read was similar to Raoc's -- it was in a western, of all things, where a tracker (evil, of course) falls into a cave, breaks his back, and is laying there with his legs in a pool of water and unable to move. The story leaves him there, but you know he'll die of hypothermia and hunger, unable to move, with nobody to hear or save him.

Suspense on the other hand I don't think is the same thing as horror. Horror is about fear, suspense is about not knowing, if that makes any sense. "The Andromenda Strain" would be suspense, I think, and not so much horror (although a virus from outer space that kills you or makes you psychotically suicidal is pretty horrifying, the meat of the book is going "so will they figure out the virus or are they all going to die?").

They're both good for a nice adrenaline rush, although I admit I don't care for gory or supernatural horror--the gory because, well, I tend to go all clinical and start critiquing the author's anatomy references, and the supernatural because it always strikes me as cheesy. (Yes, even the Exorcist movies.) But that's just a preference thing.
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