the narrative is from the point of view of a murderer in search of anyone walking in the solitude of the night in order to turn him into his next victim. only that the killer does not want to kill his prey too soon as he starts playing with him/her in a kind of gloomy game of cat and mouse. the murderer rejoices to see how fear seizes the victim who believes seeing in every shadow of the night the potential murderer, to finally realize that he has lost the perspective of reality and that his mind is playing tricks on him/her. however, this is what the murderer wants, as it will torment him (hence the name of "tormentor", "he who torments") until, in the end, he strikes.