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Halloween playlist: Devil/Demon

10 Friday Oct 2025

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Here we have playlist songs for Halloween that involve the devil, demons, or hell:

  1. “Der Furst der Finsternis” – E Nomine
  2. “The Devil Within (Piano Version)” – Digital Daggers
  3. “Lessons from the Fire” – Bishop Briggs
  4. “all the good girls go to hell” – Billie Eilish
  5. “Demonoid Phenomenon” – Rob Zombie
  6. “The Devil’s Inside My Head” – Casey Chambers and Shane Nicholson
  7. “Devil Man” – Cindy Morgan
  8. “The Devil” – Hoyt Axton
  9. “March of Mephisto” – Kamelot
  10. “Exercise the Demons” – LVCRFT (feat. Bruce Campbell)
  11. “Sympathy for the Devil” – Rolling Stones
  12. “Tribute” – Tenacious D
  13. “Devil Went Down to Georgia” – Charlie Daniels Band
  14. “Hells Bells” – AC/DC
  15. “Demons” – Imagine Dragons
  16. “Highway to Hell” – AC/DC
  17. “When the Devil Calls My Name” – LVCRFT
  18. “Demon Host” – Timber Timbre
  19. “dEVIL” – OhGr
  20. “Devils” – Inkubus Sukkubus

Halloween Playlist: Vampires

10 Friday Oct 2025

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I’m posting selections from my personal Halloween playlist on BlueSky right now, with a new theme daily. I thought I’d share each themed post here this month. I feel like I’ve done this before, but I can’t find the post and it was so long ago.

These are far from comprehensive, and there are still albums, songs, and soundtracks that I would like to purchase eventually. I didn’t include some artists that I still play on my list but have engaged in heinous bullshittery. I also didn’t include the Cranberries’ “Zombie.” I’m firmly on the side of it being a horror song, but people feel very strongly about it being on Halloween music lists, because it definitely isn’t a party song (like Cohen’s “Hallelujah” is definitely not a Christmas song).

There are all kinds of music genres here, from musical theater to rap, because I’m more interested in content than genre.

Yesterday, I posted the Vampire list and today I posted the Devil/Demon list, so I’ll do both today here.

Vampire:

  1. “Uninvited” – Alanis Morissette
  2. “Love Song for a Vampire” – Annie Lennox
  3. “Blood Like Lemonade” – Morcheeba
  4. “Bloodletting (The Vampire Song)” – Concrete Blonde
  5. “Transylvanian Concubine” – Rasputina
  6. “Masquerade Ball”/”Save Me” – Jorne Lande and Trond Holter (whole Swing of Death album, really)
  7. “Nosferatu” – Blue Oyster Cult
  8. “Love Bites (So Do I)” – Halestorm
  9. “Bleed” – Fractured
  10. “Master of the Living and the Dead”/”Dracula’s Soliloquy” – Possessed: The Dracula Musical
  11. “Possum Kingdom” – The Toadies
  12. “Damned and Divine” – Tarja
  13. “Vampire” – Xandria
  14. “Within My World” – Dracula concept album
  15. “Total Eclipse of the Heart” – Bonnie Tyler
  16. “Solar Midnite” – Lupe Fiasco
  17. “Bela Lugosi is Dead” – Bauhaus
  18. “Creatures” – Delain
  19. “Enter” – Within Temptation
  20. “First Blood” – LVCRFT
  21. “Vampires Will Never Hurt You” – My Chemical Romance
  22. “Vampire” – Bap Kennedy (added by a recommendation in the replies)

The Smiling Man

28 Wednesday Aug 2019

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I know it’s been quiet here for a while. I actually wrote three songs in the interim, but they were part of DRIFT, and I haven’t decided what to do with them there yet or whether to share them here before putting DRIFT out there.

But I did manage to throw together a little something over the last few days.

I love writing horror songs, because it really forces me to focus on atmosphere instead of plot, and they require a great economy of words – which is not my strength. 🙂

“The Smiling Man” is old Internet creepypasta that’s based on a number of urban legends about demons and monsters that interrupt your evening walk home.

Not the kind of thing I expected to write a song about, but the chorus kind of happened to me. I’m really pleased with the bridge, too.

THE SMILING MAN

On a starless night
Under yellow streetlights
Walking home in the cold
Shivering
Been thinking about
Lying down, getting warm
Wrapped up tight.

From a block away
A man dressed in gray
Strolling along in the dark
Whistling
A cold distant tune
Something grim and alive
Slips inside to stay.

Chorus:
He’s smiling
Smiling
Smiling
With his teeth
And no lips
With his tongue
Down to his wrists
He’s smiling
His whole head around
He’s smiling
Blinking
Sinking
Smiling you down.

You step and stumble back
But his song’s in the black
Following you and he comes
Dancing
To his music, to his smile
Closer still, close enough to attack.

No matter how you run
The man shadows the sun
Surrounding you, drowning you
Smiling
Until he opens his mouth
To feed upon what’s already gone.

Bridge:
It’s a merry old song
A gentleman’s smile
Whistle it with me
Through the night for a while.
And smile with me
Smile with me
Because everyone loves a good smile.

Chorus:
He’s smiling
Smiling
Smiling
With his teeth
And no lips
With his tongue
Down to his wrists
He’s smiling
His whole head around
He’s smiling
Blinking
Sinking
Smiling you down.

THORNS Playlist

19 Saturday Jan 2019

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Thorns E CoverOne of the things that I need when writing is the perfect background music. I actually end up using a cultivated playlist more during edits and to psych myself up for those edits between projects. I’m an all-five-senses kind of girl. Music inspires feelings and memories; I associate feelings and character thoughts and scenes with different songs, be it from lyrics, the singers, or whole package songs.

I shared my NOCTURNE playlist two Halloweens ago. I definitely have a gothic and metal side to my music collection, but THORNS lends itself more to pop sounds, so I hope it’s a bit of an eclectic collection. If you want to know what kind of sounds introduce the Thorns series to the world and make me experience all the THORNS feels, check out the playlist below.

The rules: No more than two songs by each artist, and no song specially written or covered for a movie. My personal playlist has these things, of course, but that’s for my own edification.

“Fairytale” – Sara Bareilles
“Loverman” – Nick Cave
“Whyyawannabringmedown” – Kelly Clarkson
“Dance in the Dark” – Lady Gaga
“Wish I Had an Angel” – Nightwish
“A Girl Like You” – Edwyn Collins
“Jar of Hearts” – Christina Perri
“(Are You) The One That I’ve Been Waiting For?” – Nick Cave
“Lil’ Red Riding Hood” – Laura Gibson
“Chandelier” – Sia
“Kevlar Skin” – Kamelot
“One Night” – Christina Perri
“Covered by Roses” – Within Temptation
“Dark Horse” – Katy Perry
“Black & Silver” – Xandria
“Save Me” – Queen
“Don’t Know How to Stop” – Halestorm
“1000 Times” – Sara Bareilles
“Stay with Me” – Sam Smith
“Save You” – Kelly Clarkson

Anything But a Diamond

29 Friday Jun 2018

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I’ve decided to start sharing some of these songwriting pieces as I go, in part because writing wants to be shared. I’m also scared to share, but I need to get over that if I don’t want to be an absolute wreck every time I put out a book. (I lost it a few times while putting out Nocturne.)

So…starting small with one of my first pieces. The style is meant to be something quiet that Miranda Lambert might sing. If this is my version of romantic, I’m going to have a heck of a time trying to write typical love songs. That’s okay. Plenty of other people out there to do it better.

ANYTHING BUT A DIAMOND

Stay away from candlelight
Don’t get down on one knee
No violins serenading
Anything but a diamond, please.

No kiss under a bright full moon
No soft island breeze
I don’t need angels standing by
Anything but a diamond, please.

I never asked for forever
All I asked for was now
All I wanted was you and me together
I never wanted a vow.

At my best I was never romantic
I kept expectations low
When the fairy tale waits too long to come by
It’s too easy to choose the devil you know.

I don’t want a fairy tale ending
No happily ever after for me
If you love me, then just say it out loud
Anything but a diamond, please.

Songwriting Goals Achieved

19 Saturday May 2018

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For the purpose of accountability, I just wanted to share that my challenge to write an average of one song a month has been met well before the deadline. I’ve discovered I have two lanes when it comes to subject matter, but they don’t exactly go together, so if I ever decide to produce anything, who knows what kind of EPs I’d come up with. 🙂 I wrote a song about trypophobia, then followed it with the sweetest love song I know how to write.

In general, I seem to favor dark social/religious commentary and self-deprecating humor.

Anyway, here’s the list, in alphabetical order (I’ll follow up on the end of the year with a full 2018 list, and maybe I’ll share a few):

1. “Vultures”
2. “Anything but a Diamond”
3. “Standing Water”
4. “Fools”
5. “The Valley of the Shadow”
6. “City on the Hill”
7. “Plenty of Fish”
8. “Devil in the Details”
9. “Trypophobia”
10. “Without You”
11. “Svrcina”
13. “My Captain”