It's a diverse bag full of 100 songs -- all treats, no tricks -- featuring the creepiest and crawliest music from scary movies and TV shows, as well as popular rock and pop songs with suitably haunting themes.
You'll find instrumental songs that set the perfect mood and still leave plenty of room for the screams of your guests. Or, if you feel like lightening up the party a bit, there's Halloween comedy classics such as 'The Purple People Eater.'
All 100 Halloween music selections below can be heard on AOL Radio's Halloween station.
Instrumental Music From Scary Movies
- You don't need words to create a spooky atmosphere for Halloween, as these classic instrumental themes, from movies such as 'Halloween' and 'The Exorcist,' prove.
Danny Elfman, 'Prelude' ('Psycho', 1998 version)
Danny Elfman, 'The Murder' ('Psycho', 1998 version)
Danny Elfman, 'Beetlejuice'
Christopher Young, 'Hellraiser'
Goblin, 'L'Alba dei Morti Viventi'
Goblin, 'Profondo Rosso (Main Titles)'
Goblin, 'Suspiria (Main Title)'
John Carpenter, 'Halloween 1963'
John Carpenter, 'Halloween 1978'
John Carpenter, 'The Boogie Man Is Coming' ('Halloween')
Marco Beltrami, 'Trouble in Woodsboro/Sidney's Lament' ('Scream')
Mark Ayres, 'The Shining [Opening Theme]'
Matt Fink, 'Candy Man'
Mike Oldfield, 'Tubular Bells ('The Exorcist')
Richard Band, 'Puppet Master'
Warner Bros. Orchestra, 'Mars Attacks'
Wojciech Kilar, 'Vampire Hunters ('Bram Stoker's Dracula')
Danny Elfman, 'The Murder' ('Psycho', 1998 version)
Danny Elfman, 'Beetlejuice'
Christopher Young, 'Hellraiser'
Goblin, 'L'Alba dei Morti Viventi'
Goblin, 'Profondo Rosso (Main Titles)'
Goblin, 'Suspiria (Main Title)'
John Carpenter, 'Halloween 1963'
John Carpenter, 'Halloween 1978'
John Carpenter, 'The Boogie Man Is Coming' ('Halloween')
Marco Beltrami, 'Trouble in Woodsboro/Sidney's Lament' ('Scream')
Mark Ayres, 'The Shining [Opening Theme]'
Matt Fink, 'Candy Man'
Mike Oldfield, 'Tubular Bells ('The Exorcist')
Richard Band, 'Puppet Master'
Warner Bros. Orchestra, 'Mars Attacks'
Wojciech Kilar, 'Vampire Hunters ('Bram Stoker's Dracula')
Songs From Scary Movies
- Of course, sometimes it's fun to spell it all out for your victims -- let them know exactly what horrors surround them on the most evil of nights. Ghosts, witches and goblins abound in these classic movie songs.
Danny Elfman, 'Oogie Boogie's Song' ('The Nightmare Before Christmas')
Danny Elfman, 'This Is Halloween' ('The Nightmare Before Christmas')
Gerard McMann, 'Cry Little Sister (Theme From the Lost Boys)'
Nine Inch Nails, 'Dead Souls' ('The Crow')
Ray Parker, Jr, 'Ghostbusters'
Richard O'Brien, 'Time Warp' ('The Rocky Horror Picture Show')
Rob Zombie, 'Everybody Scream ('House of 1000 Corpses')
Rob Zombie, 'House of 1000 Corpses'
The Ramones, 'Pet Sematary'
Susan Sarandon, 'Over at the Frankenstein Place' ('Rocky Horror Picture Show')
Songs With a Halloween Music Theme
- Rock 'n' Roll music has been scaring people without the help of visuals for decades now. Check out these tales of zombies, devils and werewolves, and you'll see just how scary a place your stereo can be even on a normal night.
Alice Cooper, 'Feed My Frankenstein'
Alice Cooper, 'Welcome to My Nightmare'
Andrew Gold, 'It Must Be Halloween'
Bauhaus, 'Bela Lugosi's Dead'
Billy Lee Riley, 'Nightmare Mash'
Bill Buchanan, 'Beware'
Bing Crosby, 'The Headless Horseman'
Black Sabbath, 'Iron Man'
Blue Oyster Cult, '(Don't Fear) The Reaper'
Bobby "Boris" Pickett & the Crypt-Kickers, 'Monster's Holiday'
Charlie Daniels, 'The Devil Went Down to Georgia'
Cher, 'Dark Lady'
Cradle of Filth, 'Creatures That Kissed in Cold Mirrors'
Creedence Clearwater Revival, 'Bad Moon Rising'
Donovan, 'Season of the Witch'
Eagles, 'Witchy Woman'
Elvira, 'Haunted House'
Godsmack, 'Vampires'
Golden Earring, 'Twilight Zone'
HorrorPops, 'Walk Like a Zombie'
Iron Maiden, 'Fear of the Dark'
Kay Starr, 'The Headless Horseman'
Marilyn Manson, 'This Is Halloween'
Metallica, 'Enter Sandman'
Michael Jackson, 'Thriller'
Ministry, 'Everyday Is Halloween'
The Misfits, 'Halloween'
Oingo Boingo, 'Dead Man's Party'
Oingo Boingo, 'Weird Science'
Ozzy Osbourne, 'Bark at the Moon'
Ozzy Osbourne, 'Hellraiser'
Rob Zombie, 'Dragula'
Rob Zombie, 'Halloween (She Get So Mean)'
Rob Zombie, 'Living Dead Girl'
Rob Zombie, 'What?'
Screamin' Jay Hawkins, 'I Put a Spell on You'
Stevie Wonder, 'Superstition'
Talking Heads, 'Psycho Killer'
The Cramps, 'I Was a Teenage Werewolf'
The Cranberries, 'Zombie'
The Doors, 'People Are Strange'
The Marketts, 'Out of Limits'
The Rolling Stones, 'Sympathy for the Devil'
Shiny Toy Guns, 'Ghost Town'
Squirrel Nut Zippers, 'Hell'
Warren Zevon, 'Werewolves of London'
Will Smith, 'A Nightmare on My Street [Single Version]'
Xavier Atencio, 'Grim Grinning Ghosts'
Halloween Music From TV Shows
- It's late at night, you're alone, the house is creaking, and you just watched something terrifying -- know that feeling? Share that same fright with your party guests by playing these classics from horror-themed television shows.
Danny Elfman, 'Tales From the Crypt'
Fred Mollin, 'Friday the 13th - The Series [Opening Titles]'
Jace Everett, 'Bad Things' (From 'True Blood')
Julianne Baird, 'Dark Shadows Theme'
Los Straitjackets, 'The Munsters Theme'
Mack David, 'Casper, the Friendly Ghost'
Mannheim Steamroller, 'Rite of Twilight (Twilight Zone Theme)'
Nerf Herder, 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Theme)'
Victor Mizzy, 'The Addams Family: Main Theme'
Halloween Comedy Music
- Halloween party music doesn't have to be all horror and dread; after all, it's a party. If your earlier choices have the hair on your guest's arms standing a little too high, ease the tension with a little bit of Halloween-themed humor.
Stephen Lynch, 'Halloween'
Sheb Wooley, 'The Purple People Eater'
Instrumental Halloween Music + More
- These songs had to work extra hard to earn their place on this list, seeing as they weren't introduced to the public during a movie while some guy in a hockey mask was cutting up a young couple. You think that makes them safe? Think again!
Ghastly Ones, 'Diabolo's Theme'
Girls Under Glass, 'Halloween'
Mannheim Steamroller, 'Hall of the Mountain King'
Mannheim Steamroller, 'Monster Mash'
Mannheim Steamroller, 'Toccata in de Mole'
Rob Zombie, 'Call of the Zombie'
If you're looking for even more Halloween music, simply listen to Halloween Radio, where you'll hear even more scary songs than the ones listed above.
