When I was a kid growing up in the 80s I remember how fascinated I was the first time I watched Thriller, Night of the Living Dead or Midnight Hour on TV. I would go to sleep at night with my imagination racing. Putting the covers over my neck so vampires wouldn't bite me when I slept. I would look down the dark hallway in our house from our well lit kitchen and feel a temporary sense of security from the the menacing unknown things lurking in the shadows. Even schlocky stuff like Morgan Freeman playing Dracula on Electric Company put a humorous spin on my view of monsters and ghouls as a child. I have always chased down the same original aesthetic of these things wherever I could find them. Halloween was the one day a year where everyone else celebrated the same stuff I was soaking in the other 364. Now that I have two children of my own I can see the excitement in their eyes when we deck the house for Halloween and read scary stories on our candle lit porch.This collection of music is meant to reflect that aesthetic from every angle I have chased down. Some of it is goofy, some of it incredibly cerebral and all of it works together as a long cohesive soundtrack for my favorite time of the year. I did make a conscious effort to avoid some of the more obvious selections you might find with more generic spooky compilations out there. No Monster Mash in sight and there's a deliberate effort to make the first part kid friendly before moving onto the more crazy stuff.It's split into a few different segments thematically.1. Kids oriented Halloween music2. Various tunes3. Classical4. Movie soundtracks5. Metal6. Goth/IndustrialHere's a collection of youtube links to some of the best silent films ever made. You can mute the youtube audio and use this as your soundtrack if you'd like. You'll want to right click these links and open them in a new tab, so the music on this page will continue to play.