The Porcelain Sisters

Book Playlist

The Porcelain Sisters Playlist

by Daryl Gregory

20 tracks

balanced

Oct 14, 2026

A crooked, shadowy mix for Ruth and Isabel’s fight: eerie strings, uncanny electronics, and playful horror-score cues evoke porcelain fragility, sorcery, and the lurking threats around them. The vocal half turns toward wicked humor, strange outsiders, and the fierce, imperfect bond between sisters.

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Track List

20 songs

1

Halloween Theme

John Carpenter · Halloween (Original 2018 Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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2

Laura Palmer's Theme

Angelo Badalamenti · Angelo Badalamenti, David Lynch: Laura Palmer's Theme from Twin Peaks

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3

Ice Dance

Danny Elfman · Edward Scissorhands

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4

One Summer's Day

Joe Hisaishi · メロディフォニー

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5

Pictures at an Exhibition (Orch. Ravel): II. The Old Castle

Modest Mussorgsky · Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition

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6

Music For A Found Harmonium

Penguin Cafe Orchestra · Preludes, Airs And Yodels (A Penguin Cafe Primer)

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7

Elegia

New Order · 80s Instrumental

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8

Marooned

Pink Floyd · The Division Bell

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9

Sleep Walk

Santo & Johnny · Canadian American Greatest Hits 50th Anniversary Collection

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10

Roygbiv

Boards of Canada · Music Has The Right To Children

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11

Acid Rain

Lorn · The Maze To Nowhere

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12

Coin-Operated Boy

The Dresden Dolls · The Dresden Dolls

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13

Lullaby

The Cure · Greatest Hits

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14

Spellbound

Siouxsie and the Banshees · Juju

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15

Goo Goo Muck

The Cramps · Psychedelic Jungle

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16

Transylvanian Concubine

Rasputina · Transylvanian Regurgitations

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17

Dead Man's Party

Oingo Boingo · Dead Man's Party

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18

I Put a Spell On You

Screamin' Jay Hawkins · At Home with Screamin' Jay Hawkins

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19

What's He Building?

Tom Waits · Mule Variations (Remastered)

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20

The Killing Jar

Siouxsie and the Banshees · Peepshow (Remastered And Expanded)

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