This post offers a comprehensive guide to Halloween music across various genres. As with most scary stories, we’ll start slow with playful Halloween vibes fit for trick or treating, then gradually descend into darker sounds for those who crave true horror.
Instantly recognizable, this is a song that everyone knows and loves. This might be one of the most played Halloween songs, but like Count Dracula, it never gets old!
Like “Monster Mash” this novelty song by Spike Jones was released for comedic purposes. While “Monster Movie Ball” has not achieved icon status like “Monster Mash”, it's just as fun.
Played as much, or possibly more, than Pickett’s “Monster Mash” this disco-funk song is a Halloween staple that we will never get tired of.
Michael Jackson - Thriller (Official 4K Video)
Originally sung by Bing Crosby for the Disney adaptation of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”, Starr covered the song in 1990 for the album Halloween Stomp.
While this song is not technically a Halloween song, the picture painted by the lyrics is haunting, and as always, Ella Fitzgerald’s voice is unforgettable.
This classic pop tune, recorded by big band leader Vaughn Monroe, showcases his hauntingly rich voice as he tells the eerie tale of a ghost-driven stagecoach.
Recorded by sister duo Patience & Prudence, this song embodies the term eerie too well. Featured in the end credits of the psychological drama Birth and in American Horror Story: Murder House and AHS: Apocalypse, its intentionally innocent tone is accidentally, and undeniably, creepy.
Originally by Scottish singer Donovan, this cover by Lana Del Rey almost sounds like it’s being sung from the perspective of the titular character of the original song.
If you’re a fan of Stranger Things, but not familiar with British goth rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees, you might not have realized that the perfectly gloomy “Spellbound” was used in the show’s fourth season finale credits.
A rock classic creepy enough for the melancholy, solemn goth icon that is Wednesday Addams
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