The horror film genre is driven by sound as much as image. Anxiety thrives not in what we can see, but in what we can’t.

Long before radio became mainstream entertainment, Edgar Allen Poe was already writing for the airwaves. Throughout the last decade of his life, his poetry and prose bristled with words and phrasing ...

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Horror movies are a tennis match between the haunting absence of sound and ...

Researchers have shown that humans perceive approaching sounds differently than we perceive receding sounds. We overestimate how quickly the sound approaching us is moving (Neuhoff, 2001). There is ...

If things on Earth aren't scary enough for you this Halloween, you can listen to scary sounds from space thanks to NASA. The U.S. space agency tweeted that they will host a live listen with a question ...

In the horror genre, when a project’s score is just as frightening as the image it accompanies, the composer has successfully done his/her job. Case in point, the scores for John Carpenter’s Halloween ...

Some dude hears a strange scary sound out in the middle of the woods all alone with mushroom hunting (not like that) in a freaky-ass new video fitting dubbed: “Strange Sound While Mushroom Hunting.” ...