Monster Halloween Hits is an expansive three-CD seasonal anthology released by EMI TV in 2010, gathering 67 tracks that celebrate all things spooky, strange, and supernatural. This definitive collection masterfully bridges decades and genres, ensuring there is a soundtrack for every kind of Halloween celebration. Disc One features legendary rock and pop blockbusters from Michael Jackson, David Bowie, and Blue Öyster Cult. Disc Two takes a turn into a mix of 80s/90s hip-hop, club alternative, and dance anthems, while Disc Three treats listeners to a wonderful retro time capsule packed with vintage 1950s/60s novelty favorites, classic rock staples, and even dramatic orchestral movements. From iconic monster anthems to deeper alternative atmospheric cuts, this comprehensive compilation remains the ultimate spooky seasonal playlist.

Released in 2014 by RockBeat Records, Halloween Nuggets: Monster Sixties a Go-Go is an ambitious, sprawling, and beautifully curated three-disc box set celebrating the glorious golden age of vintage novelty horror rock. Packing an incredible ninety-eight tracks across over three and a half hours, this collection unearths a goldmine of highly obscure, rare, and deeply entertaining mid-century gems primarily spanning the late 1950s and the 1960s. The musical lineup is exceptionally diverse, offering a magnificent blend of raw garage rock stomp, surf rock twang, wild rockabilly, and early psychedelic experimentations all bound together by ghoulishly playful themes. Listeners are treated to an absolute festival of monsters, witches, vampires, and ghouls, featuring iconic tracks like Round Robin's driving I'm The Wolfman and Jackie Morningstar's frantic Rockin' In The Graveyard. Interspersed throughout the musical selections are dozens of authentic, spine-tingling audio snippets and vintage horror movie theatre trailers, including timeless advertisements for cult classics like Plan 9 From Outer Space, Robot Monster, and Night Of The Blood Beast. This definitive compilation serves as the ultimate high-energy time capsule for collectors of vintage garage rock and obscure Americana pop culture artifacts.

Gold assembled a handful of knowns and unknowns to make special cameos on this melodic and fun collection of original and classic Halloween tunes with a pop-rock bent. Among the haunted are David Cassidy, Karla Bonoff, Linda Ronstadt, Stephen Bishop, Nicolette Larson, and Gold's children and wife. From the Beatlesesque touches of "It Must Be Halloween" (parts seemingly lifted from "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite") to Boris Karloff's "Monster Mash" and "The Addams Family" theme song, Gold and company offer up treats that kids and their parents will like, including the "Ghostbusters" theme. But with cooler original fare like "The Creature from the Tub" and "Spooky, Scary Skeletons," you have to wonder why they relied on so many predictable cover songs.

This set includes music perfect for Halloween that isn't actually about Halloween, although everything included here is definitely scary on one level or another. Consisting of vintage jazz and blues tracks issued between 1925 and 1961, there are plenty of songs here about devils and witches, including Tampa Red's "Witchin' Hour Blues," Sippie Wallace's "Devil Dance Blues," and the Mississippi Sheiks' "I Am the Devil," among others. There's also a classic version of Screamin' Jay Hawkins doing his signature tune, "I Put a Spell on You," this one done with the Leroy Kirkland Orchestra.

The French group Halloween was one of the first new progressive rock groups to emerge from the late 80's. Nothing is truly over and done with, as the phoenix rising from the ashes of time can always rise once again and soar into the mainstream. Call it rebirth (or its better-known French label 'la Renaissance') perhaps even artistic freedom after 24 years of immaculate silence, this veteran group reignites its muse for a return to the progressive community in 2025. Around the original core trio of vocalist/violinist Jean-Philippe Brun, Gilles Coppin on keyboards,(both class of 1988) and drum stool director Philippe di Faustino (in 1989) , as well as adding Geraldine LeCoq on the vocals (1994), Psy-KO showcases their ongoing legacy of intricate symphonic-prog but adding impregnable jazz-rock elements that eschew a mature sensibility in proposing challenging colorations to their discography.

Halloween is an interesting French group that plays an elaborated and polished music, full of breaks and rhythm changes, with sumptuous instrumental developments. It is part from this trend of refined, lyrical, romantic and delicate Progressive rock. Now among the elders in the new generation, Halloween plays a dark, disturbing music with tense climates in the same vein as King Crimson's "Larks' Tongues In Aspic", or Peter Hamill's procrastination in Van der Graaf Generator. Based on Jean-Philippe Brun's fantastic violin rises and impressive keyboards parts, their music is built upon vibrating rises of tension which bring to an end made of sudden explosions.

100 Hits Halloween features scary chart sounds including "Ghostbusters" (Ray Parker Jr.), "Feed My Frankenstein" (Alice Cooper),"Hunting For Witches" (Bloc Party), "Amityville (The House On The Hill)" (Lovebug Starski), "I Put A Spell On You" (Screamin' Jay Hawkins), "Monster Mash" (Bobby Pickett & The Crypt-Kickers) and many more. Also features a Karaoke DVD featuring 20 Halloween classics such as "Thriller", "Highway To Hell", "Ghost Town" and a 20 track movie theme disc featuring tracks from classic horror films such as Halloween, A Nightmare On Elm Street, The Exorcist and The Omen.

The spookiest time of the year is finally here — which means it's time to monster mash at your greatest-ever Halloween party! You might have already started brewing a few festive cocktails, lined up some creative Halloween games, and of course set out the best Halloween party snacks, but to really set the vibe, you'll obviously need a goblin-approved playlist, too.