How To Make Stories Scary

Behind the scenes of audio horror: layering, restraint, and the gap between hearing and imagining.

2023 · Sound Designer · with Audible

A viral, behind-the-scenes video, walking through how a single scene gets built into something genuinely scary (and gory). Layering, restraint, the gap between what you hear and what you imagine: the techniques that make audio horror work when the listener can’t see the room.