Have you come across those short videos on Instagram where the creators have taken snippets of iconic horror scenes and ...

Once Hollywood transitioned to sound, the horror genre as we know it took shape. Dracula (1930) and Frankenstein (1931) ...

Choose this Horror Music Playlist with Dark Music Backgrounds for your Scary Halloween Party. Create your Terror Atmosphere ...

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 ...

The world is full of sounds, and sound can affect us greatly. Some sounds are pleasant, like the laughter of a small child or a babbling brook in a peaceful forest. Other sounds are unpleasant, like ...

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 ...

The iconic shower scene in Psycho was originally supposed to play out without music. Instead composer Bernard Herrmann created “The Murder”: as the killing transpires, violins shriek and scream along ...

Discover 7 horror movies that use silence and subtle sound over jump scares. From Bird Box to The Invisible Man, these films ...

(RNS) — Audio dramas — as old as the radio but long sidelined by television — have been slowly coming back over the past two decades, riding the podcast trend back to wider popularity. Currently, what ...