Madhyanam Hatya

If there's one basic rule of story-telling, it is that you must let the tale unfold in your listener's mind. This is especially the case with thrillers. Anybody from the master of suspense to your brother who narrates all ghost stories holding a torch under his face will tell you that the real thrill is in the anticipation. In the time that it takes for a doorknob to turn, for the rusty hinges to creak slowly open, and the shadows on the wall to spring alive, your mind takes a trip of its own. It opens the door a million times in that fraction of a second, and a million times it finds ....