The Breathless Hours (indianquarterly.com)

This turned out to be delicious read - despite not being something I would have ever expected to be on Hacker News.

Good god.

  > What makes krait bite a horror story is that although a
  > victim appears lifeless, he or she is fully conscious.

Stephen King's short story "Autopsy Room Four" is a story about similar condition, although caused by a fictional snake.

Wow, that was incredibly well-written. It reads like good horror. I wasn't planning on reading any longer articles but couldn't help myself.

Great article.Thanks.

So the only defense is to sleep under mosquito netting... even sleeping on a bed (with legs) on a higher floor doesn't help you...

Well, shit.

> The real problem with kraits is that they enter homes in the dead of night and bite people in their sleep.

A krait in the bed is the premise for the excellent short story "Poison" by Roald Dahl.

So, er, are mongeese an effective deterrent against these things?

This made me thankful I live in a place with nothing more dangerous than tiny garden snakes.

Amazing ending - "Their time has come" !