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The scariest stories to listen to this Halloween, from a horror audio expert

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par Leslie McMurtry, Senior Lecturer in Radio Studies, University of Salford

The next time you watch a horror movie, try putting it on mute. More than likely, it will lose its edge and may even appear comic. As much as horror media is visual, sound plays an outsize role in its ability to terrify. This is partly an evolutionary adaptation: sound can trigger a startle response in humans within ten milliseconds – 30 times faster than the blink of an eye.

Preeminent ghost story scholar Julia Briggs argues…

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