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Three Hours in the Haunted House

A very scary Halloween, about three hours long: horror film, TV and game scores, eerie modern classical music, dark ambient, and the creaks, chains and footsteps of a haunted house. Lights off.

Length
3h 05m
Tracks
50
Energy
Moderate
Vocals
Mixed vocals

Mostly instrumental. Voices we know of: the choirs in “Ave Satani” and Ligeti’s choral Lux Aeterna, Mia Farrow (credited) on the Rosemary’s Baby lullaby, the Get Out main title, and the “Assorted Screams” sound-effect track. Not yet listened through for others.

Made to scare adults: screams, a heartbeat, dissonant strings, and expect some sudden loud moments. Not for small children; the gentler Halloween at the Front Door was made for a porch with trick-or-treaters. Durations are as Spotify lists them.

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Published October 30, 2026

This is the scary one. Turn the lights off and let it run for the evening, about three hours, and it plays like a night in a haunted house.

It starts outside: wind, a rusty gate, the main title from The Shining, the opening of Tubular Bells from The Exorcist, the lullaby from Rosemary’s Baby. Then a door creaks open and the house takes over: Ligeti’s slow, swelling Lontano, the end title from Poltergeist, a long stretch of haunted-house ambience. Inside, footsteps drag and chains rattle between some of the most unsettling screen scores of recent years: The Witch, It Follows, Hereditary, Under the Skin, Chernobyl.

Then comes the chase: John Carpenter’s Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, the shower scene from Psycho, Goblin’s Suspiria, Hellraiser, Get Out, It. Then the clock strikes midnight, and it gets darker and stranger: “Ave Satani” from The Omen, Ligeti’s Lux Aeterna, Penderecki’s Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima, Morricone’s music for The Thing, Silent Hill 2. The final stretch is the storm before dawn, ending on the long, dread-filled cues from Annihilation and Mandy.

The haunted-house sounds (the creaking doors, rattling chains, heartbeat and the clock striking midnight) come from a Walt Disney sound-effects record, New Chilling, Thrilling Sounds of the Haunted House. This one is for grown-ups. For the trick-or-treaters at the door, the gentler Halloween at the Front Door was made for that. For the costume party, it’s The Halloween Costume Strut.

Tracklist

Side A

  1. 01WindsWalt Disney Sound Effects Group1:37
  2. 02Rusty GateWalt Disney Sound Effects Group0:09
  3. 03Main Title (The Shining)Wendy Carlos, Rachel Elkind3:24
  4. 04Haunted HouseWalt Disney Sound Effects Group3:22
  5. 05Tubular Bells (Opening Theme from The Exorcist)Mike Oldfield3:17
  6. 06Lullaby from Rosemary’s Baby, Part 1Krzysztof Komeda, Mia Farrow2:25
  7. 07Creaking DoorsWalt Disney Sound Effects Group0:23
  8. 08LontanoGyörgy Ligeti; Berliner Philharmoniker, Jonathan Nott11:37
  9. 09Carol Anne’s Theme (End Title from Poltergeist)Jerry Goldsmith4:19
  10. 10Hill House (from The Haunting of Hill House)The Newton Brothers1:11
  11. 11Haunted House AmbienceNature Sound Retreat9:50
  12. 12Dragging FootstepsWalt Disney Sound Effects Group0:22
  13. 13It’s just a burning memoryThe Caretaker3:32
  14. 14Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta: III. AdagioBéla Bartók; Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan8:12
  15. 15What Went We (from The Witch)Mark Korven1:59
  16. 16Title (from It Follows)Disasterpeace2:17
  17. 17Demimonde (Main Title from Penny Dreadful)Abel Korzeniowski1:36
  18. 18Rattling ChainsWalt Disney Sound Effects Group0:41
  19. 19Reborn (from Hereditary)Colin Stetson3:52
  20. 20Love (from Under the Skin)Mica Levi5:10
  21. 21The DungeonWalt Disney Sound Effects Group1:10
  22. 22Bridge of Death (from Chernobyl)Hildur Guðnadóttir4:44
  23. 23Halloween Theme (Main Title)John Carpenter2:55
  24. 24Main Title (A Nightmare on Elm Street)Charles Bernstein3:33
  25. 25Overlay of Evil / Main Title (from Friday the 13th)Harry Manfredini3:33

Side B

  1. 26HeartbeatWalt Disney Sound Effects Group0:25
  2. 27The Murder (from Psycho)Bernard Herrmann1:03
  3. 28SuspiriaGoblin6:02
  4. 29Profondo RossoGoblin3:45
  5. 30Voci dal nulla (from The Beyond)Fabio Frizzi4:25
  6. 31Resurrection (from Hellraiser)Christopher Young2:34
  7. 32Sikiliza Kwa Wahenga (Main Title from Get Out)Michael Abels1:20
  8. 33Every 27 Years (from It)Benjamin Wallfisch2:37
  9. 34The ConjuringJoseph Bishara0:59
  10. 35A Quiet Family (from A Quiet Place)Marco Beltrami1:59
  11. 36Assorted ScreamsWalt Disney Sound Effects Group0:25
  12. 37Clock Striking MidnightWalt Disney Sound Effects Group0:30
  13. 38Ave Satani (from The Omen)Jerry Goldsmith2:36
  14. 39Lux AeternaGyörgy Ligeti; NDR Chor, Helmut Franz7:58
  15. 40Threnody to the Victims of HiroshimaKrzysztof Penderecki; Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Antoni Wit9:00
  16. 41Tolling BellWalt Disney Sound Effects Group0:44
  17. 42Vampire Hunters (from Bram Stoker’s Dracula)Wojciech Kilar3:06
  18. 43Humanity (Part II) (from The Thing)Ennio Morricone7:15
  19. 44White Noiz (from Silent Hill 2)Akira Yamaoka1:24
  20. 45The Mirror Reflecting (Part 2)The Haxan Cloak7:07
  21. 46The StormWalt Disney Sound Effects Group1:04
  22. 47AtmosphèresGyörgy Ligeti; Berliner Philharmoniker, Jonathan Nott8:59
  23. 48The Alien (from Annihilation)Ben Salisbury, Geoff Barrow12:04
  24. 49Heresy Part 1Lustmord7:24
  25. 50Children of the New Dawn (from Mandy)Jóhann Jóhannsson5:31

Total3h 05m

At a glance

How long is the “Three Hours in the Haunted House” playlist?
3 hours 5 minutes, 50 tracks, played in the order listed.
Does it have singing?
Mostly instrumental. Voices we know of: the choirs in “Ave Satani” and Ligeti’s choral Lux Aeterna, Mia Farrow (credited) on the Rosemary’s Baby lullaby, the Get Out main title, and the “Assorted Screams” sound-effect track. Not yet listened through for others.
Is it suitable for children?
Made to scare adults: screams, a heartbeat, dissonant strings, and expect some sudden loud moments. Not for small children; the gentler Halloween at the Front Door was made for a porch with trick-or-treaters. Durations are as Spotify lists them.
Where can I listen to it?
On Spotify, as a public playlist. Anyone can see the tracklist there, and playing it needs the Spotify app or web player.
Who made it?
It was picked, put in order and listened through by the editor at A Playlist For…. Software did not choose the songs.

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