With the fast-approaching celebration of Halloween, fearsome frights and horror flicks are as much a staple as jawbreaker-related trips to the dentist. From the ghosts that swing from the trees to the ...

LIVING alone in the woods is an adventure in silence. People say, ‘Are n’t you, a woman, afraid to stay alone there?’ Yes, it becomes at times an adventure in fear. It is also an adventure in motion.

Fear is primal. It’s how we react to the unknown. And when composers and songwriters set out to make frightful music, it opens up a world of creative possibilities. We’ll hear vivid examples from John ...