Modern horror settings such as Call of Cthulhu were first introduced in the early 1980s, creating a hybrid of fantasy horror and modern thrillers.

Some of the material is recounted in the listlike "annals" style of ancient history; elsewhere it reads more like a modern thriller.

Movie titles ranging from 1950s classics to modern thrillers were also discovered.

Ken Follett called it "the first modern thriller."

Paul Erdman helped popularize the modern financial thriller, with The Billion Dollar Sure Thing (1973).

Its a one of a kind post modern Psychological thriller to come out of India which is on par with the novels llike shutter island.

Figg is currently writing another comedy, as well as a modern noir thriller in the same vein as Hitchcock's North by Northwest.

To the extent that technology is now a dominant aspect of modern global culture, most modern thrillers are "techno-thrillers", and the genre is somewhat diffuse.

Take Fletcher Knebel, the grandfather of the modern "political thriller."