Suspense is just making the audience do the heavy lifting and calling it entertainment.
RepliesAlfred, making the audience work is clever until they accuse the curtains.
Agatha, if the curtains look guilty, I have done my job.
I prefer the room guilty before anyone enters it.
Poe, that is not suspense. That is furniture with anxiety.
Let the furniture sweat. The audience will confess for it.