From the Kid Stuff Repertory Company circa 1977, Mostly Ghostly is one of the more unusual offerings from cheapo Halloween records of yesteryear. You won’t find the standard stock library sound effects (that we all know and love) here; the album appears to be completely original. Night Prowl is a particular spooky favorite around the… Read more »
Posts Tagged: sound effects
Haunted Halloween: Spooky Sounds to Chill Your Bones! 1991
From Dove Audio in 1991, Haunted Halloween was sold as a cassette in a cheap cardboard sleeve (but featuring some fun, Disney-inspired artwork). This is a great example of the direction these types of offerings were going by the early 1990’s – you can definitely hear more modern influences (particularly John Carpenter-ish synths and Friday… Read more »
Halloween: Stereo Sounds and Music for Your Parties
From D. Records circa the 1960’s comes HALLOWEEN: Stereo Sounds and Music for Your Parties, Trick or Treaters & School Festivals, a peculiar blend of stock sound effects and music (apparently Indian-inspired music was very scary in the 1960s, as evidenced by “Ghost Combo (Play Spook Music)”. If you were a kid in the 60’s… Read more »
Horror Sounds of the Night
This one is a bit of a mystery. It was released some time in the 80’s and was as cheap as they come – no case, sold on a blister card in drug stores and featuring recycled sound effects from sources at least 20 or 30 years old. So cheap, in fact, that the “30… Read more »
Sinister Sonics
I thought we’d mix it up a little bit today and offer something from this century. Sinister Sonics started out as a side project of dark artist, designer and entrepreneur Chad Savage in 2003. The Challenge: Create some sound loops that (a) would create a genuinely creepy atmosphere in a haunted house, (b) looped seamlessly… Read more »
Night in a Graveyard, Haunted House Music Co (1985)
A companion piece to yesterday’s post Haunted House, Haunted House Music Co’s “Night in a Graveyard: Recorded Live on the Estate of Castle Dracula” continues your oddly-retro-even-though-it-was-1985 sound story as you walk through a windy, haunted cemetery. This is another October favorite around the pumpkin patch and might easily have been released on the same… Read more »
Haunted House, Haunted House Music Co (1985)
Your moldering host Sam is old enough to remember picking this up as a cassette tape in a drug store on a whim in 1986. It was dirt cheap, but for something released in the 80’s, it has a decidedly old-school vibe that made it an immediate and enduring October favorite of mine, from the… Read more »
Ghostly Sounds: A Haunting Experience (Power Records, 1974)
This classic series of “stories in sound” features a brief narrated intro for each vignette, then you hear each story played out in sound. Any Halloween-loving adult older than 40 will instantly recognize a lot of the sound effects used, as there seemed to be a common pool of them used for decades and, as… Read more »
The Countdown to Halloween Starts Now! Spook Stuff for Hallowe’en (1960)
Happy October! Finally, our favorite time of year has arrived and we’re kicking it off with our first post for the annual Countdown to Halloween Blog-A-Thon! For 2014, we’re going to give the Faces of the Great Pumpkin Art Contest a rest – we may bring it back for 2015, we may not. Instead, for… Read more »
