Mara is a list article writer for Game Rant with experience writing professionally as a content creator and a degree in Creative Writing. In her free time, she likes to write, bake, watch horror films ...

Instead composer Bernard Herrmann created “The Murder”: as the killing transpires, violins shriek and scream along with the victim. When you hear a scream, it quickly activates the amygdala, a brain ...

Megan (She/They) is a freelance journalist from the United Kingdom for the digital publication, Game Rant. She has been professionally writing gaming content for roughly four years now, since starting ...

There’s something timeless about gathering friends at a sleepover and daring each other to play creepy games. Whether it’s ...

Leslie McMurtry does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

From oil-rig terrors to cozy cosmic fishing trips gone wrong, these picks mix recent standouts with all-time chillers. Each blurb hits what it’s about and how it actually plays—no filler, just fear. A ...

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 ...