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The Hastur Cycle Playlist
by Robert M. Price, H.P. Lovecraft
20 tracks
balanced
Oct 8, 2026
The collection’s fin-de-siècle unease, the Yellow Sign, and the recurring vision of Carcosa call for music that shifts between ornate mystery and vast, impersonal dread. This instrumental sequence moves from shadowy chamber and electronic textures toward dissonant horror and uneasy aftermath, evoking both the doomed figures drawn into Hastur’s orbit and the cosmic scale behind their unraveling.
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20 songs
1
Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima
Krzysztof Penderecki · Penderecki: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1
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2
Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz. 106: III. Adagio
Béla Bartók · Bartok New Series 10 - Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta - Divertimento - Hungarian Sketches
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3
Polymorphia
Krzysztof Penderecki · Penderecki: Te Deum - Hymne an den Heiligen Daniel - Polymorphia
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4
Lipstick To Void
Mica Levi · Under the Skin
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5
Painless Steel
Bohren & Der Club Of Gore · Sunset Mission
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6
The Mirror Reflecting (Part 2)
The Haxan Cloak · Excavation
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Requiem for Dying Mothers, Pt. 2
Stars Of The Lid · The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid
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8
The Winter
Balmorhea · Rivers Arms
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Requiem for the Static King, Pt. 1
A Winged Victory for the Sullen · A Winged Victory for the Sullen
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10
In the Fog II
Tim Hecker · Ravedeath, 1972
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11
dlp 1.1
William Basinski · The Disintegration Loops (Remastered)
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12
Promise (Reprise)
andrewa · Silent Hill
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13
The Bookhouse Boys - Instrumental
Angelo Badalamenti · Soundtrack From Twin Peaks
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14
The Rite of Spring, K15, Pt. 1: II. The Augurs of Spring
Igor Stravinsky · Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring / Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra
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15
Danse macabre, Op. 40
Camille Saint-Saëns · Saint-Saens: Symphony No. 3 / Dance Macabre / Bacchanale / 3 Rhapsodies
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16
A Night On The Bare Mountain
Modest Mussorgsky · Danse Macabre
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17
The Seventh Seal
Scott Walker · Scott 4
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18
Suspiria
Goblin · Suspiria (40th Anniversary) [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
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Profondo rosso
Goblin · Profondo rosso (Gold Tracks) [Colonna Sonora Originale dal Film "Profondo Rosso"]
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