id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4283 Thriller (genre) - Wikipedia .html text/html 3200 441 66 According to Greek philosopher Aristotle in his book Poetics, suspense is an important building block of literature, and this is an important convention in the thriller genre.[7] Ancient epic poems such as the Epic of Gilgamesh, Homer's Odyssey and the Mahābhārata may have used similar narrative techniques to modern thrillers.[citation needed] The Three Apples, a tale in the One Thousand and One Nights (Arabian Nights), is a murder mystery[14] with multiple plot twists[15] and detective fiction elements.[16] In this tale, a fisherman discovers a heavy locked chest along the Tigris river and he sells it to the Abbasid Caliph, Harun al-Rashid, who then has the chest broken open only to find inside it the dead body of a young woman who was cut into pieces. "What's Mystery, Suspense & Thriller Genre?". "Thriller and Suspense Films". "Thriller and Suspense Films". "Thriller and Suspense Films". ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4283.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4283.txt