Psycological Thrillers...a look at the genre itself

Books have a way of reaching out and grabbing you, Especially with a genre called Psychological thrillers.
Definition:Characters are no longer reliant on physical strength to overcome their brutish enemies (which is often the case in typical action-thrillers), but rather are reliant on their mental resources, whether it be by battling wits with a formidable opponent or by battling for equilibrium in the character's own mind. The suspense created by psychological thrillers often comes from two or more characters preying upon one another's minds, either by playing deceptive games with the other or by merely trying to demolish the other's mental state.

• Then I Pulled the two words apart to get another meaning of this genre.
• Psychological- This word alone concentrates on what is related directly to the mind along with the process of how the mind works, This usually a mental battle rather than a natural physical fight,Also psychological books concentrate on trying to make the reader understand exactly what happend to the character and why they have a war raging in their mind.
• Thriller- This is usually plot over character, their is usual physical contact among characters, and concentrates on the physical action of the character.

Then when you mix these two genres some of the elements slightly change to really create a psychological thriller that will really grab its readers and make them read at the edge of their seat all the way to the end because they need to know what happend's at the end of the book.

Here are some examples of some Psychological Thrillers!:

1. Stephen King ( The main man of this genre..in my opinion at least)- Carrie, Thinner, Desperation
2. Orson Scott Card- Ender's Game
3. Dennis Lehane- Shutter Island
4. Thomas Harris- Hannibal

I know when i read a book i want to be excited and i generally want to be intrugued within the first ten pages of the book or i get bored quick and lose interest in the book at all, but everytime i have picked up a psychological thriller i think about the book even when i am not reading and thats why this is such an interesting genre, it makes you think of it without it in front of your face and it truely does reach deep into your mental thinking.