“Caleb’s Seduction,” Mark Korven “William’s Confession,” Mark Korven “Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath,” Hector Berlioz “Spellbound,” Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Christophe Beck “Suite from Sleeper,” Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Robert Duncan “Var,” Sigur Rós “End,” Sigur Rós “Pensée des Morts,” Franz Liszt “Totentanz,” Franz Liszt “Funeral,” Hereditary, Colin Stetson “And Still They Move,” Colin Stetson “Tempus Vernum,” Enya “Boadicea,” Enya “The Isle of the Dead,” Sergei Rachmaninov “Near Dark,” Tangerine Dream “The Thing,” Ennio Morricone “The Arrival,” The Lighthouse, Mark Korven “Into the Light,” The Lighthouse, Mark Korven “Suspira,” Opening Credits, Goblin “Summoning the Woman in Black,” The Woman in Black, Marco Beltrami “Arthur’s Theme,” The Woman in Black, Marco Beltrami “Piano Quintet,” Alfred Schnittke “Danse Macabre,” Camille Saint-Saëns 🙂 If you click on each song, you can listen to it on YouTube. Here’s the playlist, and I hope it brings you lots of inspiration! Although I did watch the heck out of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I haven’t seen any of the movies the soundtrack music is from. I included more slow and quiet songs than fast, dramatic songs in case the latter get in the way of your thought process.

I can write to music with lyrics, and I practically wrote a whole haunted house romance while listening to this song on repeat.īut for a lot of people, the best songs to write to are instrumental.

The best background writing music is just that-background-so I only use music with no English lyrics (including classical music and music from TV and movie soundtracks). It’s a good writing playlist for horror, suspense, and mystery novels and screenplays, and it’s also good, intense music to listen to when writing a book with a scary scene in it. Hi friends! This isn’t Halloween playlist per se, but I’ve gotten a couple of requests for it and I thought the week before Halloween would be the perfect time to post it.

List of spooky music for plays