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It wasn't a standard stage chuckle. It started low in his chest, a dry, rattling sound that built into a crescendo of pure, manic glee. It was the sound of something ancient and hungry. When the final echo faded into the studio silence, Jackson reportedly stood frozen, half-scared and half-awed.

The air in the studio was thick with more than just cigarette smoke and the smell of expensive reel-to-reel tape. It was late 1982, and was about to wrap up a track that felt more like a movie than a song. Thriller End Laugh

Price leaned into the microphone. He didn't just read the lines; he inhabited them. When he reached the climax of the narration—the part about the "hounds of hell"—the room went cold. Then came the laugh. It wasn't a standard stage chuckle