Boo.
I love Halloween. Always have. And it’s not just the costumes and free candy. Although, hey: costumes and candy.
For some of us, All Hallow’s Eve is one of the High Holy Days, secularly and spooktacularly speaking. I used to make my parents’ home a haunted house for the neighborhood children, built haunted houses for little kids when I was in high school, and am now the art director for work's annual Door Decorating Contest. (My first day at the new job was Halloween and was told that there was a door-decorating contest and I had ten minutes to come up with something before the judging. It sort of spiraled from there. See: The Hitchcock Hallway, The Voodoo Cemetery, The Twilight Zone, and The Woods Are Lovely, Dark, and Deep.)
The solstice season is full of holiday music. I maintain that the Samhain season also has a soundtrack. Not the obvious Monster Mashes, but a solid playlist of ghosts and ghouls, darkness and Dracula, murder and midnight, moonlight and mayhem, masks and masquerades, witches, vampires, one-eyed creatures, free candy, and invisible men.
Some of you know that I have spent decades making thematic mix tapes/mix CDs. In 2001, I started the Halloween mixes. (There's another set pending of new songs or ones I should have thought about before.)
Clicking on the thumbnails below brings up the CD insert. Clicking on the larger image will take you to the track list and song links.
Easier to enjoy: a compilation playlist of my favorite Songs for the Spooky Season on Spotify.
For some of us, All Hallow’s Eve is one of the High Holy Days, secularly and spooktacularly speaking. I used to make my parents’ home a haunted house for the neighborhood children, built haunted houses for little kids when I was in high school, and am now the art director for work's annual Door Decorating Contest. (My first day at the new job was Halloween and was told that there was a door-decorating contest and I had ten minutes to come up with something before the judging. It sort of spiraled from there. See: The Hitchcock Hallway, The Voodoo Cemetery, The Twilight Zone, and The Woods Are Lovely, Dark, and Deep.)
The solstice season is full of holiday music. I maintain that the Samhain season also has a soundtrack. Not the obvious Monster Mashes, but a solid playlist of ghosts and ghouls, darkness and Dracula, murder and midnight, moonlight and mayhem, masks and masquerades, witches, vampires, one-eyed creatures, free candy, and invisible men.
Some of you know that I have spent decades making thematic mix tapes/mix CDs. In 2001, I started the Halloween mixes. (There's another set pending of new songs or ones I should have thought about before.)
Clicking on the thumbnails below brings up the CD insert. Clicking on the larger image will take you to the track list and song links.
Easier to enjoy: a compilation playlist of my favorite Songs for the Spooky Season on Spotify.