Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. How do you convey the presence or someone or something in a scene without the audience actually seeing it? That's the special ...

Undertone crosses the boundary between listener and participant, resulting in a work which fulfils its promise of terror.

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 ...

From the double-bass pulse that signals the presence of the giant shark in "Jaws," to the shrieking strings that slice along with Norman Bates' knife in "Psycho's" famous shower scene, horror films ...

In horror games, sound is more than background noise—it’s a psychological weapon. From eerie ambient drones to sudden silences, every audio cue is designed to make your skin crawl. Understanding how ...

I was recently watching a scene from the 2025 film Weapons for a monograph I’m writing and noticed a familiar sound: a low, unsettling drone as a character walks down a hallway. It’s the same kind of ...

If you want to know what it sounds like to root around in someone’s chest cavity without the bloody mess, a grapefruit will do just fine. Tear, compress, and squish it in your hands. With a little ...

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 ...

A wave of advanced horror audio toolkits is connecting the creative worlds of game development, live streaming, and cinematic sound design. From Yohan Shin’s unsettling sound redesign for A24’s ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We take a closer look at the subtle ways horror movies use sound to make your mind play tricks on you. We visited Alchemy Post ...