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40 Haunting Songs For Your 2020 Halloween Playlist
This year, Halloween is different, we get it. We can't trick or treat like usual. We can't gather in large groups at our regular haunts to scare up a bit of fun with our favorite boils and ghouls. And we can't head to the multiplex to cower and jump in a dark room full of strangers for the latest horror film. Since we horror fans are re-imagining exactly how we'll celebrate our favorite holiday, we're trying to focus on the things that make us happy that we can do safely regardless of the size of the crowd we're doing it with.
In that spirit, we offer up a playlist of skinks and creepers created by our very own Robert Rutherford, MoPOP's Manager of Public Engagement and host of our online horror film watchalong series It's Coming from Inside the House! So pour yourself a drink, study up on Wednesday Addams' INCREDIBLE moves, get yourself into costume—even if the most you can muster is another (maybe cleaner) pair of sweatpants—and shake a tailfeather!
1. "Tension Builder" - Screaming Halloween
2. "I'm The Wolfman" - Round Robin
3. "Human Fly" - The Cramps
4. "Night of the Vampire" - Ricky Erickson
5. "Jekyll and Hyde" - Jim Burgett
6. "Goo Goo Muck" - Ronnie Cook & The Gaylads
7. "Transylvania Twist" - Bobby "Boris" Pickett, The Crypt Kickers
8. "The Invasion Is Coming" - Invasion
9. "Spooky" - Dusty Springfield
10. "Demonic Worship" - Screaming Halloween
11. "Black Magic" - Jericho Jones
12. "House on Haunted Hill" - Kenny & The Fiends
13. "The Blob" - The Five Blobs
14. "Strolling After Dark" - The Shades
15. "Dracula's Daughter" - Screaming Lord Sutch & The Savages
16. "Long Way Back From Hell" - Danzig
17. "Mummy Walk (Walking Death)" - Contrails
18. "The Witch" - The Sonics
19. "The Werewolf" Carl Bonafede & The Gemtones
20. "I Was A Teenage Werewolf" - The Cramps
21. "Watusi Zombi" - Jan Davis
22. "Haunted House" - Chris Kevin
23. "Rockin' in the Graveyard" - Jackie Morningstar
24. "Evil Girl" - Halloween Sound Effects
25. "I Put a Spell on You" - Screamin' Jay Hawkins
26. "Pet Sematary" - Ramones
27. "Night Of The Sadist" - Larry & The Blue Notes
28. "Chanting Monks" - Halloween Sound Effects
29. "Ghost a Go Go" - Richard Rome
30. "Where the Wolf Bane Blooms" - The Nomads
31. "Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)" - David Bowie
32. "Halloween" - Siouxsie and the Banshees
33. "Sweet Transvestite" - Tim Curry
34. "Frankenstein" - New York Dolls
35. "The Devil's Gotten Into My Baby" - Devotions
36. "Burn Devil Burn" - Soul Messengers, The Spirit of Israel
37. "Witch's Brew" - Darla Hood
38. "You Got Me Under Your Spell" - Mae Young
39. "I Want Candy" - The Strangeloves
40. "Halloween TV Commercial" - Tommy Lee Wallace, Alan Howarth
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