We listen to these songs all year round but they sound better around Halloween. Almost any song from the Rocky Horror Picture Show or from the Misfits is a Halloween song.
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There are over 100 songs on our Halloween list. For this Halloween season, our top 13 favorites are:
Dead Man’s Party — Oingo Boingo • Feed My Frankenstein — Alice Cooper • Ghostbusters — Ray Parker Jr.
Halloween — Dream Syndicate • Highway to Hell — AC/DC • I Want Candy — Bow Wow Wow
Monster Mash — Bobby “Boris” Pickett & the Crypt-Kickers • Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) — David Bowie
Superstition — Stevie Wonder • Thriller — Michael Jackson • The Time Warp — Rocky Horror Picture Show
Werewolves of London — Warren Zevon • Zombie — The Cranberries
Name | Artist | Name | Artist | Name | Artist |
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Abracadabra | Steve Miller Band | The Addams Family (Main Title) | Vic Mizzy | Astro Zombies | Misfits |
Bad Moon Rising | Creedence Clearwater Revival | Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead | Crash Test Dummies/XTC | Bark at the Moon | Ozzy Osbourne |
Bat Out of Hell | Meat Loaf | Bella Legosi is dead | Bauhaus | Black Magic Woman | Santana |
The Blob | The Five Blobs | Buffy the Vampire Slayer theme | Nerf Herder | Cemetery Drive | My Chemical Romance |
Cemetery Polka | Tom Waits | Clap for the Wolfman | The Guess Who | The Creature from the Black Lagoon | Dave Edmunds |
Creatures of the Night | Kiss | Creature with the Atomic Brain | Roky Erickson & the Aliens | Dead Flowers | The Rolling Stones |
Dead Man’s Party | Oingo Boingo | Dead Man Walkin’ | Bruce Springsteen | Dead! | My Chemical Romance |
Devil Inside | INXS | Devil in My Car | B-52’s | Devil Went Down to Georgia | Charlie Daniels Band |
Devil with the Green Eyes | Matthew Sweet | Devil’s Radio | George Harrison | Dig up Her Bones | Misfits |
Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead | The Fifth Estate | Doin’ the Zombie | Chubby Checker | Don’t Fear the Reaper | Blue Oyster Cult |
Dracula | Gorillaz | Dragula | Rob Zombie | Enter Sandman | Metallica |
Everyday is Halloween | Ministry | Evil Ways | Santana | Evil Woman | Electric Light Orchestra |
Eye of the Zombie | John Fogerty | Feed My Frankenstein | Alice Cooper | Frankenstein | Edgar Winter Group |
Frankenstein | New York Dolls | Full Moon | Elvira | Ghostbusters | Ray Parker Jr. |
Ghost Dance | Patti Smith Group | Ghost in this House | Alison Krauss | The Ghost of You | My Chemical Romance |
Ghost of Tom Joad | Bruce Springsteen | Ghost Riders in the Sky | Johnny Cash | Ghost Town | The Specials |
Gravedigger | Willie Nelson | Graveyard Rock | Garland Jeffreys | Grim, Grinning Ghosts | Disney |
Halloween | Aqua | Halloween | Dave Matthews Band | Halloween | Dead Kennedys |
Halloween | Dream Syndicate | Halloween | Gaslight Anthem | Halloween | Jerry Seinfeld |
Halloween | Misfits/AFI | Halloween | Mudhoney | Halloween | Rent |
Halloween | Siouxsie & the Banshees | Halloween | Sonic Youth | Halloween on Barbary Coast | The Flaming Lips |
Halloween Spooks | Lambert, Hendricks & Ross | Haunted House | Garland Jeffreys | Haunted House | Jumpin’ Gene Simmons |
Headless Horseman | Bing Crosby | Helter Skelter | The Beatles | Highway to Hell | AC/DC |
Horror Movie | The Skybooks | Hungry Like the Wolf | Duran Duran | I Put a Spell On You | Screamin’ Jay Hawkins/CCR |
I Want Candy | Bow Wow Wow | I Was a Teenage Werewolf | The Cramps | Jump in the Line | Harry Belafonte |
Little Shop of Horrors | Little Shop of Horrors soundtrack | Living Dead Girl | Rob Zombie | Locked Within the Crystal Ball | Blackmore’s Night |
Lost in the Shadows | Lou Gramm | Love Potion No. 9 | The Clovers | Madhouse | Rihanna |
Mommy’s Little Monster | Social Distortion | Monster’s Holiday | Bobby “Boris” Pickett & the Crypt-Kickers | Monster Mash | Bobby “Boris” Pickett & the Crypt-Kickers |
Monster | Fred Schneider | Moon over Bourbon Street | Sting | Munsters theme | Comateens |
My Body’s a Zombie for You | Dead Man’s Bones | Nightmares | A Flock of Seagulls | A Nightmare on My Street | D.J. Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince |
Night of the Living Dead | Garland Jeffreys | Out of Limits | The Marketts | Over at the Frankenstein Place | Rocky Horror Picture Show |
Pet Sematary | Ramones | Psycho Killer | Talking Heads | Purple People Eater | Sheb Wooley |
The Raven | The Simpsons | Running Scared | Roy Orbison | Runnin’ with the Devil | Van Halen |
Season of the Witch | Donovan | Scare Easy | Mudcrutch | Scared | John Lennon |
Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) | David Bowie | Scream | Misfits | Skulls | Misfits |
She’s a Zombie Now | The Meteors | Somebody’s Watching Me | Rockwell | Spooky | Classics IV |
Superdeformed | Matthew Sweet | Superstition | Stevie Wonder | Surfin’ Dead | The Cramps |
Sweet Transvestite | Tim Curry | Thriller | Michael Jackson | This is Halloween | The Citizens of Halloween Town |
The Time Warp | Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack | Tombstone Blues | Bob Dylan | Tombstone Shadow | Creedence Clearwater Revival |
Tubular Bells | Mike Oldfield | Twilight Zone Theme | Twilight Zone | Vampira | Misfits |
Voodoo Voodoo | LaVern Baker | Walking Dead theme | Walking Dead soundtrack | Weird Science | Oingo Boingo |
Welcome to My Nightmare | Alice Cooper | Welcome to the Black Parade | My Chemical Romance | Werewolf | Frantics |
Werewolves of London | Warren Zevon | Wicked Old Witch | John Fogerty | Wild Thing | The Troggs |
Witchcraft | Frank Sinatra/Robert Smith | Witch Doctor | Sha Na Na | Witchy Woman | Eagles |
Zombie | The Cranberries | Zombie Birdhouse | Iggy Pop | Zombie Jamboree | Harry Belafonte |
Came Back Haunted | Nine Inch Nails | Ghost Town | The Vaccines | Vampires Will Never Hurt You | My Chemical Romance |
Haunted When the Minutes Drag | Love and Rockets | Zombie Dance | The Cramps | Another Way Out | Hollywood Undead |
Dead Bite | Hollywood Undead |