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 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 ...

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 ...

Have you come across those short videos on Instagram where the creators have taken snippets of iconic horror scenes and replaced the clip’s sound with regular peppy songs or silly background scores?

If you need noise to distract you, but music is too much, your iPhone can now provide Background Sounds to help, in iOS 15. If you need silence while you work, your best bet is to use the noise ...