Misery

Misery was filled with masterfully-used suspense. It's one of those horror films/books that actually has you rooting for the protagonist because the protag didn't get into his trouble due to a stupid mistake or choice. Paul Sheldon has no control over the situation at all. Stephen King used suspense by giving us little clues that our antagonist, Annie Wilkes, isn't as sweet and harmless as she seems to be in the beginning. We start to see more and more of this unstable side of Annie Wilkes as the movie/book goes on. When Paul finally escapes from his room, King puts an emphasis on how he knocks over the little glass penguin and puts it back up facing the wrong direction and we take extra notice of the knives in the kitchen. Then there's the fight scene where Annie has an obvious advantage over Paul and yet Paul still manages to pull through. But not really. He doesn't really escape Anni Wilkes. He's traumatized, he almost certainly has physical scars from the encounter, he sees Annie almost everywhere, and his publisher and others are pushing for a non-fiction description of his encounter, which would certainly reopen the mental scars.