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 ...
Geza Rohrig, left, is a worker who herds fellow Jews into gas chambers in “Son of Saul.” Laszlo Nemes LaoKoon These are the sounds of hell: The frenzied barking of dogs. The shouting of guttural ...
A detail from Jan Van Eyck's The Last Judgment," ca. 1440–1441. (Wikimedia Commons) In an interview on Italian television last month, Pope Francis was asked what he thinks about hell. The pope ...
A Soviet drilling project in Siberia went deeper than ever before—and the legends say what came back was horrifying. Microphones lowered into the borehole allegedly captured the “sounds of Hell.” ...
Few metaphysical spaces are quite as terrifying as hell. As a Christian conception, it haunts the collective imagination, a reminder of the danger of sinning and living a bad life. However, it also ...