Music box melodies warped through a child's nightmare logic. Among the Sleep is a 2015 first-person horror game where you play as a toddler, and the soundtrack nails that feeling of familiar things turning frightening. "Carousel" starts almost playful before the edges start curling.
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"The Monster Is Here" is exactly as terrifying as the name implies, all distortion and rising panic. "Secret Lullaby" threads this heartbreaking gentleness through the horror. Everything sounds slightly too large, slightly too close.
Like the world is built for someone bigger than you. "Chairs in the Dark" makes furniture sound menacing, which is honestly impressive. Put this on if you want to remember what it felt like when the dark hallway to the bathroom was the scariest place on earth.