‘Sound Effects No. 13 – Death & Horror’ courted controversy upon its release in 1977—but despite graphic track titles like “Red Hot Poker Into Eye” and a campaign to have it banned, it became an ...

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 ...

Jon Richter is a dark fiction writer and connoisseur, who likes his video games as disturbing as possible. For more information about his books, visit www.jon-richter.com. As far back as the ZX ...

Have you ever found yourself reaching for the volume button while watching a scary scene in a horror film? Or even muted said scene entirely? The suspense, dread, and atmosphere that had you racing to ...

DALLAS - Johann Sebastian Bach's organ music masterpiece "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor" is one of, if not the most notorious spooky song. It has been utilized in several films to create that instant ...

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 ...

You know that sound that makes the hair stand up on the back of you neck? That “watch out because the alien’s huge, slimy tentacles are slithering closer and closer” sound? Lots of classic 1950s ...

The high-pitched scream of a violin under the frenzied see-saw of a furious bow. A murderous intent made manifest in melodic lines so sharp and jagged, a page of music looks like a threat. An ominous, ...

As we head toward the Halloween season, families will be looking for spooky and silly songs to play around the house to get everyone into the spirit of All Hallow’s Eve, with one of the more notable ...