eeeeee.

n.  the scream of a slain ghoul.

<So I drew a picture of a beautiful lady with long hair driving a sword right into the eye of a ghoul with blood and jelly squirting out and the ghoul shouting, screaming, “EEEEEE!” in big red letters.  —Brian Doyle, Boy O’Boy.>

n.  the shriek of suffering and dying horses, as described in The Chaos Balance by L. E. Modesitt Jr.


n.  what the famous figure in Munch’s painting “The Scream,” “the official spokesperson of angst,” says to Elvis Presley in a humor piece entitled “All Shook Up” by Bobbie Ann Mason, quoted in More Mirth of a Nation: The Best Contemporary Humor by Michael J. Rosen.

Eeeeee eeeeee / Eeeeee eeeeee / Eeeeeeeeee / Eeee eeee eeee eeee.

n.  a stanza from the song “Going Away Blues” by Lottie Kimbrough, as transcribed in The Blues Line: Blues Lyrics from Leadbelly to Muddy Waters by Eric Sackheim.

Eeeeee Eeeeee Eeeeee.

n.  a transcription of the stringed instrumentation theme from the score to the film Psycho.

<[Danny Elfman] had an idea about sampling the shower scene from Psycho and slowing down the “Eeeeee! Eeeeee! Eeeeee!” strings and making a rhythm out of it.  —David Morgan, Knowing the Score: Film Composers Talk About the Art, Craft, Blood, Sweat, and Tears of Writing for Cinema.>

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