Halloween Collections 2013

One of my favorite parts of Halloween are the Halloween collections I make. Similar to my Pop collections, they are composed of individual new tracks to form a cohesive whole. I put together haunting rock songs with eerie movie soundtrack material to create the perfect mixes for scaring the shit out of myself on my late-night walks.

So far this year I have three new ones to add to the canon. I find that the live tracks from Neil Young's Bridge School Benefit are ideal for something like this: they're acoustic, sparce, and more than a little haunted. The Harry Potter movies also have some surprisingly fantastic horror-esque music. Each album is about 45 minutes.

Halloween 5: Neighborhood of Creatures

1. The Neighborhood -- Douglas Pipes [Trick 'r Treat]
2. Original Inhabitants -- Jeff Grace [The House of the Devil]
3. Darkness Takes Over -- Nicholas Hooper [Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]
4. Nothing As It Seems (Bridge School) -- Pearl Jam
5. The Mothman -- Jeff Toyne [Shadow in the Trees]
6. Passing Trees -- Jeff Grace [I Can See You]
7. Walking With a Ghost (Bridge School) -- Tegan and Sara
8. Footsteps -- Jeff Grace [House of the Devil]
9. Like Oh, Like H (Bridge School) -- Tegan and Sara
10. Laurie's First Time -- Douglas Pipes [Trick 'r Treat]
11. Little Anna -- Javier Navarrete [Mirrors]
12. Ghost (Demo version) -- Indigo Girls
13. Creature -- Jericho
14. Lumos! (Hedwig's Theme) -- John Williams [Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban]

Halloween 6: Spirit on the Porch

1. It's Halloween, Not Hanukkah -- Douglas Pipes [Trick 'r Treat]
2. Heritage -- Opeth
3. Girl and the Ghost -- KT Tunstall
4. Not a Trick / Red and Black -- Douglas Pipes [Trick 'r Treat]
5. He's Calling You -- Jeff Grace [House of the Devil]
6. Asturias / The House is Safe -- Javier Navarrete [Mirrors]
7. The Devil's Orchard -- Opeth
8. The Halloween School Bus Massacre -- Douglas Pipes [Trick 'r Treat]
9. The View Upstairs -- Jeff Grace [House of the Devil]
10. A Book of Blood -- Javier Navarrete [Pan's Labyrinth]
11. Ghost of the Gang (Acoustic) -- Indigo Girls
12. Bathilda Bagshot -- Alexandre Desplat [Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows pt. 1]
13. Ghost of a Dog (Bridge School) -- Edie Brickell

Halloween 7: Will o' the Wisp

1. Pitch Meeting -- Jeff Grace [I Can See You]
2. Scars (Bridge School) -- Kacy Crowley
3. Something Out There -- Anton Sanko [The Last Winter]
4. Disposable Heroes (Bridge School) -- Metallica
5. Lights Out -- Jeff Grace [The House of the Devil]
6. I Feel the Dark -- Opeth
7. Snape's Demise -- Alexandre Desplat [Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows pt. 2]
8. Fade to Black (Bridge School) -- Metallica
9. Ghost Hardware -- Burial
10. Evening Fog -- Jeff Grace [I Can See You]
11. Ghost Dance (iTunes Original Version) -- Patti Smith