The short stories, “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, and “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allen Poe,” both are suspenseful. Both authors used suspense to slow time and create a sense of danger. Suspense can be felt in the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game” when General Zaroff is hunting Rainsford. Rainsford is in a tree hiding when the narrator says, “The general’s eyes had left the ground and were traveling inch by inch up the tree”(Connell 32). The reader can feel the sense of danger because Zaroff is hunting Rainsford and if Rainsford gets spotted he will be killed. The reader senses time passing while Zaroff’s eyes go “inch by inch” up the tree. You feel the time passing because each inch is later that much closer to Rainsford