Sinister Resonance by Toop David

Author:Toop, David
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781441149725
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing
Published: 2010-06-01T04:00:00+00:00

THE HAUNTING

This interpretation of sound as an unstable or provisional event, ambiguously situated somewhere between psychological delusion, verifiable scientific phenomenon, and a visitation of spectral forces, is a frequent trope of supernatural fiction. In Bram Stoker’s Dracula, after all the whisperings and susurrations, howling wolves, bats flapping at windows, the ‘low piteous howling of dogs’, the ‘churning sound of her tongue’ when Jonathan Harker is seduced by three voluptuous vampires, and their silvery musical laughter, ‘like the intolerable, tingling sweetness of water-glasses when played on by a cunning hand’, one of the first signs of Count Dracula’s imminent arrival in Whitby is auditory:

Shortly before ten o’ clock the stillness of the air grew quite oppressive, and the silence was so marked that the bleating of a sheep inland or the barking of a dog in the town was distinctly heard, and the band on the pier, with its lively French air, was like a discord in the great harmony of nature’s silence. A little after midnight came a strange sound over the sea, and high over head the air began to carry a strange, faint, hollow booming.

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