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Halloween playlist: Movies/TV

20 Monday Oct 2025

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Today’s post includes songs from or about horror TV series and movies. I didn’t include just plain theme songs from the most common horror movies, although I have them in my full Halloween playlist, unless they were covered or altered in some way or if they were taken from someone else’s music. You can find horror theme song albums lots of places. Songs about specific horror monsters are in another subsection of the playlist.

Movie/TV/Theme Songs (about or from): (posted)

  1. “Dream of a Witch’s Sabbath” – Hector Berlioz (The Shining)
  2. “Tubular Bells” – Mike Oldfield (The Exorcist)
  3. “Ave Satani” – The Omen
  4. “A Nightmare on My Street” – DJ Jazzy Jeff
  5. “The Well”/”Television” – The Ring/The Ring 2
  6. “Your True Face” – God Module (samples from Nightbreed)
  7. “Twisted Nerve” – Kill Bill
  8. “Hello Zepp” – Saw
  9. “Monochrome Kiss” – AmaLee (Black Butler)
  10. “The Host of Seraphim” – The Mist
  11. “Vampire Hunters”/”The Brides” – Bram Stoker’s Dracula
  12. “Dangerous Type” – Letters to Cleo/”Dark Secret” – Matthew Sweet (The Craft)
  13. “Tip Toe Through the Tulips” – Tiny Tim (Insidious)
  14. “Swan Lake Opening” – Tchaikovsky (Black Swan)
  15. “Red Right Hand” – Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (Scream)
  16. “Aperitif” – Hannibal Season 1, Vol. 1 (includes Bach’s Goldberg Variations)
  17. “Purple People Eater” – NOPE
  18. “Pet Sematary” – Ramones
  19. “Haunted (from Fear Itself)” – Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  20. “Final Destination” – Within Temptation
  21. “Batman, Wolfman, Frankenstein and Dracula” – LVCRFT (feat. Spencer Ludwig)
  22. “Remain (from Old)” – Saleka
  23. “Carry On Wayward Son” – Kansas (Supernatural)
  24. “Closer” – Nine Inch Nails (Se7en)
  25. “You’re Not Here”/”Letter from the Lost Days” – Silent Hill 3 (Silent Hill movie)
  26. “Rain of Brass Petals: Three Voices Edit” – Silent Hill: Revelation
  27. “Opening (Sarah’s Theme)” – Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
  28. “Hatching Baby Raptor” – Jurassic Park
  29. “Into the Fire” – Dokken (Nightmare on Elm Street 3)
  30. “Cry Little Sister” – Blutengel (Lost Boys, I Know What You Did Last Summer)
  31. “Mary, Mary [Stigmata Mix]” – Chumbawumba
  32. “Danse Macabre” – Camille Saint-Saens (“Hush” (Buffy the Vampire Slayer))
  33. “Fun with Knives” – Velvet Acid Christ (Event Horizon samples)
  34. “Cold” – Aqualung and Lucy Schwartz (Twilight: Breaking Dawn, Pt. 1)
  35. “Straight to Hell” – LVCRFT (feat. Sabrina Spellman) (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, to the tune of “Skeleton Sam”)
  36. “Ghostbusters” – Ray Parker, Jr.
  37. “In the Acts of Violence” – Dawn of Ashes (samples from Alien 3)
  38. “Spooky” – God Module (samples from Return of the Living Dead)
  39. “Be Careful What You Wish For” – Wayfarers/”The Wish Box” – tomandandy (Wish Upon)
  40. “Running Up That Hill” – Kate Bush/”Master of Puppets” – Metallica (Stranger Things)
  41. “What You Feel”/”Walk Through the Fire” – Buffy the Vampire Slayer “Once More with Feeling”
  42. “Bad Romance” – Lady Gaga (Hitchcock movie references)
  43. “I Was a Teenage Werewolf” – The Cramps
  44. “We’ve Only Just Begun” – The Carpenters (1408)
  45. “Eyes on Fire” – Blue Foundation (Twilight)
  46. “Once Upon a Dream (Young Ruffian Remix)” – Lana Del Rey (Maleficent)
  47. “Love Crime from the Wrath of the Lamb” – Siouxsie Sioux (Hannibal Season 3, Vol. 2)

Cutting Thorns Off Roses: Friday Update

11 Friday Aug 2023

Posted by amandamblake in A Few Thoughts, Poetry, Series, Thorns, Writing

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crooked house, crystal lake shallow waters flash fiction, editing, gothic horror, horror movie, poem, talk to me

News:

Actually not a lot of news to report this week. I’m in waiting mode for rejections/acceptances, and there’s been some behind the scenes stuff, plus a few things coming out this week, like “A Bug in the Design” at Crystal Lake Shallow Waters, if you want to get in on that Patreon for some exciting new flash every month.

I had a comment to a Twitter post that’s doing some real numbers (for me), and it amuses me that a throwaway comment seems to have resonated like that.

I had my annual-ish ear cleaning, so now I can hear and I’m not stuck in my own head, which is nice.

I also saw Talk to Me, which I thought was amazing, a throat-punch for the first three parts. I agree with some people that it whiffed the ending and pulled the last few punches, but not in a way that negated the excellence that came before. It felt viral and modern without feeling too much on the phone; it felt like an authentic teen scream without watering itself down. It’s what the movie Slender Man aspired to and was too afraid to let itself be.

Works in Progress:

I finished the first round of edits on Crooked House (Thorns 5). I made a few small additions, but not what I was expecting. I think I’ll ask my beta readers and editors if they think I should add more, but for now it feels pretty solid as is, and I really, really like it.

As a Thorns novel, it’s as short as Puppeteer (Thorns 4) is long. It started at 158K words, and I cut it down to a bare 133K words. Still more than Nocturne, which is my longer gothic-style supernatural horror novel, but generally the Thorns novels average about 150-155K words.

I’m letting the edits breathe and doing another patch of short fiction. I’ve written two shorts and plan to write three more in the flash range. Then I’ll do the second editing round.

Books I’m Reading:

IT by Stephen King
Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder (finished)
Discount Armageddon by Seanan McGuire

Music I’m Listening To:

Ambient dark music
Dracula musical (Orton/Evans)
Kamelot
Halestorm

Things I’m Watching:

CSI series
CSI:Miami series
Great British Baking Show: Junior Bake-Off series (caught up)
Not Dead Yet series
Murder She Wrote series
Red Notice movie
NOPE movie
Fright Night (1985) movie – Why did no one tell me how delectably queer this movie is?

Poem of the Week:

should you sleepwalk
within the halls
please don’t hesitate
to ring a bell or call
but be extra careful
these darker nights
not to kindle candles
of strangers alight
you never know what
roams there with you
or, if it knows you know
it’s there, what it will do

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