'Salem’s Lot
Book Playlist · Haunted Halloween

'Salem’s Lot Playlist

by Stephen King

40 tracks
mysterious
Oct 18, 2026
4 mixes for this book

Haunted Halloween gathers hushed voices, uneasy chamber textures, and shadowed soundscapes for the slow encroachment of terror in Jerusalem’s Lot. Its restrained dread follows Ben Mears’s return to the Marsten House, the town’s unraveling, and the fragile courage of those who resist; the seasonal atmosphere complements the book without turning its quiet menace into a jump-scare soundtrack.

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Track List

40 songs
1

Main Title (The Shining)

Wendy Carlos · The Shining (Selections from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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Tubular Bells

Mike Oldfield · Time To Have Peaceful

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3

Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima

Krzysztof Penderecki · Penderecki: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1

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4

Atmosphères

György Ligeti · György Ligeti

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Lux aeterna

György Ligeti · 20th Century Choral Music

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Constant Fear

Bohren & Der Club Of Gore · Black Earth

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7

In the Fog I

Tim Hecker · Ravedeath, 1972

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8

dlp 1.1

William Basinski · The Disintegration Loops (Remastered)

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Requiem for Dying Mothers, Pt. 1

Stars Of The Lid · The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid

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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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Promise (Reprise)

andrewa · Silent Hill

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12

Bismillahi 'Rrahmani 'Rrahim

Harold Budd · The Pavilion Of Dreams

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13

Empire Systems

Rafael Anton Irisarri · A Fragile Geography

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14

Excavation (Part 1)

The Haxan Cloak · Excavation

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15

Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

Ralph Vaughan Williams · Vaughan Williams: Tallis Fantasia; Fantasia on Greensleeves; The Lark Ascending etc.

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16

The Sinking of the Titanic

Gavin Bryars · Bryars: Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet

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17

A Walk in the Forest

David Darling · Cello and Piano Meditations: Music for Relaxation and Healing

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18

Song To The Siren

This Mortal Coil · Lilliput

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19

River Man

Nick Drake · Five Leaves Left

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20

All Mine

Portishead · Portishead

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21

Flatlands

Chelsea Wolfe · Unknown Rooms: A Collection of Acoustic Songs

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Daisy, Where Did You Go?

Marissa Nadler · Marissa Nadler

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23

Gloomy Sunday

Billie Holiday · BD Music Presents Billie Holiday

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The Host of Seraphim

Dead Can Dance · A Passage in Time

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25

In the Pines

Lead Belly · Where Did You Sleep Last Night: Lead Belly Legacy, Vol. 1

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I Put A Spell On You

Nina Simone · Feeling Good: Her Greatest Hits And Remixes

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Famous Blue Raincoat

Leonard Cohen · Songs of Love and Hate

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The Spider And The Fly - Remastered 2002

The Rolling Stones · Out Of Our Heads

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29

Ain't No Grave

Johnny Cash · American VI: Ain't No Grave

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30

The Night Has A Thousand Eyes

Bobby Vee · The Night Has A Thousand Eyes

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31

Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair

Nina Simone · Fall, Through Her Voice: Nina, Billie & Sarah

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32

The Wind

Yusuf / Cat Stevens · This Is Us (Music From The Series)

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33

Sour Times

Portishead · Dummy

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34

A Forest

The Cure · Seventeen Seconds

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35

The Witch

The Sonics · Here Are the Sonics

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36

The End of the World

Skeeter Davis · The Essential Skeeter Davis

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37

My Body Is A Cage

Peter Gabriel · Scratch My Back

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38

No One's Gonna Love You

Band of Horses · Cease To Begin

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39

The Funeral

Band of Horses · Everything All The Time

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40

The Carnival Is Over

Dead Can Dance · Wake

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