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This playlist follows the novel’s passage from the uneasy familiarity of family life in rural Maine into grief, dread, and the terrible pull of trying to undo death. The instrumentals build an ominous, spacious landscape around the Creed family’s isolation and the burial ground; the vocal songs turn toward loss, obsession, and the story’s darkly intimate relationship with mortality.
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20 songs
1
Music for Airports, 1/1 - Radio Mix
Brian Eno · Music for Airports, 1/1 (Radio Mix)
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Black Angels, Thirteen Images from the Dark Land, Departure: I. Threnody I "Night of the Electric Insects"
George Crumb · George Crumb: Black Angels & Music for a Summer Evening
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Profondo rosso
Goblin · Profondo rosso (Gold Tracks) [Colonna Sonora Originale dal Film "Profondo Rosso"]
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Tenebre
Goblin · Austinato - Live in Austin, Texas
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Main Title
Jerry Goldsmith · Alien
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Handel / Orch. Hale: Keyboard Suite No. 4 in D Minor, HWV 437: III. Sarabande
George Frideric Handel · Handel Sarabande
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Kanon in D-Dur (Canon in D Major)
Johann Pachelbel · Kanon in D-Dur (Canon in D Major)
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The Isle of the Dead, Op. 29
Sergei Rachmaninoff · Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 1; The Isle of Dead
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The Sinking of the Titanic
Gavin Bryars · Bryars: Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet
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The Big Ship
Brian Eno · Eno Piano 2
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Pet Sematary
Ramones · Brain Drain
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The Funeral
Band of Horses · Everything All The Time
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13
Dead Man's Party
Oingo Boingo · Dead Man's Party
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She's in Parties
Bauhaus · Burning from the Inside
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Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath · The Ultimate Collection
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People Are Strange
The Doors · Strange Days
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Run Through The Jungle
Creedence Clearwater Revival · Cosmo's Factory
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18
Everyday Is Halloween
Ministry · Very Best of Fixes & Remixes
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The End of the World
Skeeter Davis · The Essential Skeeter Davis
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