Careful with that Axe, Eugene – Pink Floyd (“Ummagumma” version is good, but the “Pompeii” version is scariest of all, arguably the scariest song in existence)

A Saucerful of Secrets – Pink Floyd

Jugband Blues – Pink Floyd (Syd ends by singing “And what exactly is a dream? And what exactly is a joke?”)

Is there Anybody Out There? – Pink Floyd

One of these Days – Pink Floyd

Echoes – Pink Floyd

Interstellar Overdrive – Pink Floyd

The Reaper – Blue Oyster Cult

Dies Irae – Hector Berlioz (many of you will remember this as the opening theme for “The Shining”)

Hotel California – especially if you believe the (erroneous) urban legend that circulated for some time after it came out

Riders on the Storm – Doors (“There’s a killer on the road, his brain is squirming like a toad.”)

LA Woman – Doors

The End – Doors

Tubular Bells – Mike Oldfield

Fugue and Toccata – Bach

Man in the Box – Alice in Chains

Moonlight Sonata – Beethoven (not intended to be scary as such, but the extreme melancholy this induces never fails to send chills down my spine)

Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath

NIB – Black Sabbath

War Pigs – Black Sabbath

Hot Rod Lincoln – Buddy Ryan

Space Oddity – David Bowie

On the Road Again – Canned Heat (love that eerie intro, and Blind Owl’s voice sounds just like a lonely train)

Run Through the Jungle – CCR

I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry – Cowboy Junkies

Lay Your Hands On Me – Peter Gabriel

Murder – David Gilmour (a stinging rebuke for John Lennon’s killer, Mark David Chapman)

Halloween Theme – John Carpenter

Death Letter – Son House (“You know I didn’t feel so bad, ’til the good ol’ sun went down/I didn’t have a soul to throw my arms around”)

No Quarter – Led Zeppelin

In the Evening – Led Zeppelin

Stranglehold – Ted Nugent (eerie vocals, filled with menace and reproach, and – oh yeah – Ted’s searing guitar)

Crying – Roy Orbison (his wail of despair at the very end never fails to set the hairs up on my neck)

Sober – Tool

Bridge of Sighs – Robin Trower