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* "Literature/TheHound1924": The hound's presence is first established when the protagonists enter the Holland churchyard and hear the faint baying of a hound. This baying follows them on the ship back to England and to their manor-house on the moors, being rarely traceable as coming from a specific direction. The terror brought on by the baying swells with its reoccurrences and gets worsened by the additional but less frequent sound of moving wings. In the end, when St. John is dead and the narrator digs up the Dutchman in a bid for mercy, he is left stunned when he finds the corpse in an evident state of undeadness and covered in organic material that indicates he's killed someone not too long ago. Freeze turns to flight only when the Dutchman greets him by baying.
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** In ''Five on a Hike Together'', Dick and Anne are on a deserted moor on a rainy night, and they hear a fierce clanging of bells, which are certainly not church bells. [[spoiler: They are a warning of an escaped prisoner.]]
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** In ''Five on a Hike Together'', Dick and Anne are on a deserted moor on a rainy night, and they hear a fierce clanging of bells, which are certainly not church bells. [[spoiler: They are a warning of an escaped prisoner.]]]] This is almost a TraumaButton, as they are startled when later, they do hear church bells.
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* ''Literature/TheFamousFive'': The Five (especially Anne) are often scared by mysterious noises. Notable examples are:
** In ''Five get into Trouble'', they are startled by screech owls, on Owl's Hill. Even brave George thinks this noise is frightful.
** In ''Five on a Hike Together'', Dick and Anne are on a deserted moor on a rainy night, and they hear a fierce clanging of bells, which are certainly not church bells. [[spoiler: They are a warning of an escaped prisoner.]]
** Also in ''Five on a Hike Together'', Dick is sleeping in a barn, and suddenly wakes to hear a scratching sound on the walls of the barn, followed by tapping on the window.
---> '''Anne:''' How horrid. I shouldn't have liked that at all.
---> '''Dick:''' I didn't.
** In ''Five get into Trouble'', they are startled by screech owls, on Owl's Hill. Even brave George thinks this noise is frightful.
** In ''Five on a Hike Together'', Dick and Anne are on a deserted moor on a rainy night, and they hear a fierce clanging of bells, which are certainly not church bells. [[spoiler: They are a warning of an escaped prisoner.]]
** Also in ''Five on a Hike Together'', Dick is sleeping in a barn, and suddenly wakes to hear a scratching sound on the walls of the barn, followed by tapping on the window.
---> '''Anne:''' How horrid. I shouldn't have liked that at all.
---> '''Dick:''' I didn't.
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* The heartbeat from Creator/EdgarAllanPoe's "The Tell-Tale Heart” drives the narrator insane. Subverted in that there is no actual sound, he's just insane.
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* The heartbeat from Creator/EdgarAllanPoe's "The Tell-Tale Heart” "Literature/TheTellTaleHeart" drives the narrator insane. Subverted in that there is no actual sound, he's just insane.
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* The trope is inverted in ''Literature/TheScrewtapeLetters.'' The letters that the demon Screwtape writes to his nephew are sent from Hell, where there is continuous noise. He tells Wormwood that in Heaven there is just silence and music. This is meant to be a terror to his nephew, as the demons ‘’want’’ (although not necessarily like) the cacophony.
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* The trope is inverted in ''Literature/TheScrewtapeLetters.'' The letters that the demon Screwtape writes to his nephew are sent from Hell, where there is continuous noise. He tells Wormwood that in Heaven there is just silence and music. This is meant to be a terror to his nephew, as the demons ‘’want’’ ''want'' (although not necessarily like) the cacophony.
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* ''Literature/{{Alatriste}}:'' Recurring antagonist [[PsychoForHire Gualterio Malatesta]] is noted to have a very particular whistle that usually comes out in his giddier moments, and often precedes him. And his presence is ''never'' a good sign, for he's usually under the antagonist's payroll, eager to do violence, and a MasterSwordsman that can give even the captain a hard time all by himself.
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* In Barbara Kingsolver's ''Animal Dreams'', the "shattering pop" [[spoiler:of the flashbulb [[NoInfantileAmnesia from her neonatal memory]]]] that precedes being BlindedByTheLight in the protagonist's recurring dream.
* [[spoiler:The underwater cave]] in ''[[Literature/DoNotTakeTheShells DO NOT TAKE THE SHELLS]]'' is filled with a constant noise that keeps getting louder, then quieter, then louder again, making it impossible to tune out.
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* In ''Literature/JohnDiesAtTheEnd'', the sound of Korrok's otherworldly worm minions is described as "... fifty thousand men trapped on a desert island, deprived of food and water and sex but somehow kept alive for fifty thousand years. Then, after they've been tormented a hundred steps beyond insanity, tortured past self-mutilation and cannibalism, somebody drops off a sculpture of a naked woman made of T-bone steaks. If you could then capture the sound of them simultaneously fucking and eating and tearing her to shreds and broadcast it to the center of your skull at ten thousand watts, it would still sound absolutely nothing like what I heard."
* ''Literature/TheHauntingOfHillHouse'' -- the noises outside disturb Eleanor.
* In Creator/MichaelCrichton's ''Literature/JurassicPark'', the T-Rex's roar, when first heard by the characters, is described as a horrifying, unbearable scream from another world. A character ''wets his pants'' while hearing it.
* ''Literature/TheHauntingOfHillHouse'' -- the noises outside disturb Eleanor.
* In Creator/MichaelCrichton's ''Literature/JurassicPark'', the T-Rex's roar, when first heard by the characters, is described as a horrifying, unbearable scream from another world. A character ''wets his pants'' while hearing it.
* ''Literature/TheHauntingOfHillHouse'' -- the noises outside disturb Eleanor.
* The 'growl' made by the house in ''Literature/HouseOfLeaves.''
* In ''Literature/JohnDiesAtTheEnd'', the sound of Korrok's otherworldly worm minions is described as "... fifty thousand men trapped on a desert island, deprived of food and water and sex but somehow kept alive for fifty thousand years. Then, after they've been tormented a hundred steps beyond insanity, tortured past self-mutilation and cannibalism, somebody drops off a sculpture of a naked woman made of T-bone steaks. If you could then capture the sound of them simultaneously fucking and eating and tearing her to shreds and broadcast it to the center of your skull at ten thousand watts, it would still sound absolutely nothing like what I heard."
* In Creator/MichaelCrichton's ''Literature/JurassicPark'', the ''T. rex's'' roar, when first heard by the characters, is described as a horrifying, unbearable scream from another world. A character ''wets his pants'' while hearing it.
* Creator/DeanKoontz's ''Literature/{{Phantoms}}'' will often include the ''descriptions'' of mundane sounds to help ratchet the tension, especially after a character has discovered a body. This culminates later on when someone picks up the phone and starts hearing various mundane animal noises, which slowly turn into the sound of [[spoiler: thousands of people screaming in hellish agony.]]
* The 'growl' made by the house in ''Literature/HouseOfLeaves.''
* In ''Literature/JohnDiesAtTheEnd'', the sound of Korrok's otherworldly worm minions is described as "... fifty thousand men trapped on a desert island, deprived of food and water and sex but somehow kept alive for fifty thousand years. Then, after they've been tormented a hundred steps beyond insanity, tortured past self-mutilation and cannibalism, somebody drops off a sculpture of a naked woman made of T-bone steaks. If you could then capture the sound of them simultaneously fucking and eating and tearing her to shreds and broadcast it to the center of your skull at ten thousand watts, it would still sound absolutely nothing like what I heard."
* In Creator/MichaelCrichton's ''Literature/JurassicPark'', the ''T. rex's'' roar, when first heard by the characters, is described as a horrifying, unbearable scream from another world. A character ''wets his pants'' while hearing it.
* Creator/DeanKoontz's ''Literature/{{Phantoms}}'' will often include the ''descriptions'' of mundane sounds to help ratchet the tension, especially after a character has discovered a body. This culminates later on when someone picks up the phone and starts hearing various mundane animal noises, which slowly turn into the sound of [[spoiler: thousands of people screaming in hellish agony.]]
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* Creator/DeanKoontz's ''Literature/{{Phantoms}}'' will often include the ''descriptions'' of mundane sounds to help ratchet the tension, especially after a character has discovered a body. This culminates later on when someone picks up the phone and starts hearing various mundane animal noises, which slowly turn into the sound of [[spoiler: thousands of people screaming in hellish agony.]]
* The heartbeat from Creator/EdgarAllanPoe's "The Tell-Tale Heart” drives the narrator insane. Subverted in that there is no actual sound, he's just insane.
* The heartbeat from Creator/EdgarAllanPoe's "The Tell-Tale Heart” drives the narrator insane. Subverted in that there is no actual sound, he's just insane.
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* The moan of an approaching zombie in ''Literature/WorldWarZ''. Or the nonstop moaning of an entire swarm... Of course, the characters turn to see where it’s coming from before they start running.
* [[spoiler:The underwater cave]] in ''[[Literature/DoNotTakeTheShells DO NOT TAKE THE SHELLS]]'' is filled with a constant noise that keeps getting louder, then quieter, then louder again, making it impossible to tune out.
* In Barbara Kingsolver's ''Animal Dreams'', the "shattering pop" [[spoiler:of the flashbulb [[NoInfantileAmnesia from her neonatal memory]]]] that precedes being BlindedByTheLight in the protagonist's recurring dream.
* '' Literature/TheSouthernReachTrilogy'': There's a loud moaning noise which comes from the reeds every evening in Area X. At first, the expedition members taunt it with howling back at it, but when it becomes louder and angrier they desist immediately.
* [[spoiler:The underwater cave]] in ''[[Literature/DoNotTakeTheShells DO NOT TAKE THE SHELLS]]'' is filled with a constant noise that keeps getting louder, then quieter, then louder again, making it impossible to tune out.
* In Barbara Kingsolver's ''Animal Dreams'', the "shattering pop" [[spoiler:of the flashbulb [[NoInfantileAmnesia from her neonatal memory]]]] that precedes being BlindedByTheLight in the protagonist's recurring dream.
* '' Literature/TheSouthernReachTrilogy'': There's a loud moaning noise which comes from the reeds every evening in Area X. At first, the expedition members taunt it with howling back at it, but when it becomes louder and angrier they desist immediately.
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* '' Literature/TheSouthernReachTrilogy'': There's a loud moaning noise which comes from the reeds every evening in Area X. At first, the expedition members taunt it with howling back at it, but when it becomes louder and angrier they desist immediately.
* The'growl' made by heartbeat from Creator/EdgarAllanPoe's "The Tell-Tale Heart” drives the house narrator insane. Subverted in ''Literature/HouseOfLeaves.''that there is no actual sound, he's just insane.
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* In ''Literature/AtTheMountainsOfMadness'', the narrator keeps bringing up a strange musical piping sound in the air throughout the MysteriousAntarctica setting. At first he attributes it to the wind blowing through the Mountains and the {{Bizarrchitecture}} ruins of the AncientAstronauts city, but then he hears that sinister piping when he's deep into the ruins [[spoiler: and in the climactic ending it's revealed that it came from the [[BlobMonster Shoggoth]], which are mindlessly howling the StarfishLanguage of their ancient masters.]]
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* The heartbeat from Creator/EdgarAllanPoe's "The Tell-Tale Heart” drives the narrator insane.
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* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' book ''Discworld/MovingPictures'' there is an instrument called a resograph ("thingness-writer"), which measures disturbances in the fabric of reality. It drops a small lead ball in the direction of the disturbance, which "... in severe cases may exceed --''plib''-- two pellets --''plib''-- during the course --''plib''-- of --''plib''-- one --''plib''-- month". Or to put it in other words...
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* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' book ''Discworld/MovingPictures'' ''Literature/MovingPictures'' there is an instrument called a resograph ("thingness-writer"), which measures disturbances in the fabric of reality. It drops a small lead ball in the direction of the disturbance, which "... in severe cases may exceed --''plib''-- two pellets --''plib''-- during the course --''plib''-- of --''plib''-- one --''plib''-- month". Or to put it in other words...
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* In Creator/JamesThurber's unusually dark "The Whip-Poor-Will" the song of a whippoorwill which will just ''not shut up'' drives the main character insane, leading him to kill his wife, the servants and finally himself.
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* In Creator/JamesThurber's unusually dark "The Whip-Poor-Will" the song of a whippoorwill which will just ''not shut up'' drives the main character insane, leading him to kill his wife, the servants and finally himself.
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* The 'growl' made by the [[Literature/HouseOfLeaves house]] in Literature/HouseOfLeaves.
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* Colin Thiele's ''Aftershock'' has this at the start of the earthquake from the end of ''Literature/{{Shatterbelt}}'':
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* Colin Thiele's ''Aftershock'' ''Aftershock!'' has this at the start of Chapter 2, depicting the earthquake from the end of ''Literature/{{Shatterbelt}}'':
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* Colin Thiele's ''Aftershock'' has this at the start of the earthquake from the end of ''Literature/{{Shatterbelt}}'':
-->The roar, when it came, convulsed and stunned the world. For a second or two, beforehand there had been utter silence. he birds had suddenly ceased their songs, the dogs had stopped barking, the horses were standing tense and still.\\
It started in the hills. Nobody had ever heard a sound like that before. It began as a rumble, a deep, deep thunder, as if some great god of the earth had stirred, and groaned in agony. But it grew with fearful speed, louder and louder, like a hundred jet planes taking off together. It swept down on the foothills and the city, on the streets and houses, on the people in St. Bernard's Park. It was in the air above them and all around them, and in the ground beneath their feet. The air thundered and vibrated, the earth rocked.
-->The roar, when it came, convulsed and stunned the world. For a second or two, beforehand there had been utter silence. he birds had suddenly ceased their songs, the dogs had stopped barking, the horses were standing tense and still.\\
It started in the hills. Nobody had ever heard a sound like that before. It began as a rumble, a deep, deep thunder, as if some great god of the earth had stirred, and groaned in agony. But it grew with fearful speed, louder and louder, like a hundred jet planes taking off together. It swept down on the foothills and the city, on the streets and houses, on the people in St. Bernard's Park. It was in the air above them and all around them, and in the ground beneath their feet. The air thundered and vibrated, the earth rocked.
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** The scream of a fully grown mandrake plant is said to be enough to kill instantly.
