Sure, Christmas may beat Halloween for sheer volume of songs. A search at Amazon reveals almost 500 titles under "Christmas Music", compared to a less than 50 Halloween music discs. While most of those Christmas tunes will put you in the mood for a nice long nap, or make you feel so wonderfully happy you might think you OD'd on Prozac, there's no substitute for a little undead serial killing zombie rock to put you in the mood for scaring little kids, smashing pumpkins, and fattening up on bags of Butterfingers.

The people at the Wisconsin Journal Sentinel have a few suggestions in many genres to get you in the holiday spirit:

**Ghostcrunchers: Heavy Metal Frights**

"Living Dead Girl" by Rob Zombie: As a horror film director and avid student of classic horror, Zombie is the kind of guy who could offer up his entire discography as a fright night accompaniment.

"I Love the Dead" by Alice Cooper: Alice must have loved trick-or-treat as a kid; he's made it his life's work.

"Raining Blood" by Slayer: Another band that seems almost invented for Halloween.

** Moldy Mummies: Scary Oldies **

"Monster Mash" by Bobby "Boris" Pickett: If Halloween had a national anthem, this would probably be it. Whatever did happen to the Transylvanian Twist?

"Hellhounds on My Trail" by Robert Johnson: They say he traded his soul to the devil in exchange for his guitar talent, so he probably knew what he was singing about.

"Witch Doctor" by David Seville: Even before he cursed the planet with singing chipmunks, David Seville unleashed the dark silliness of the Witch Doctor: "Ooo-E-Ooo-Ah-Ah, Ting-Tang-Walla-Walla-Bing-Bang."

** Classic Frights **

"Frankenstein" by Edgar Winter: Edgar finds the hidden rocker inside Boris Karloff.

"Thriller" by Michael Jackson: This song was a smash in 1984, but if you think about it, Michael's much scarier now.

"Superstition" by Stevie Wonder: If you're going to be haunted, it may as well be by a great riff.

** Blood on the Popcorn: Scary Movie Tunes **

"Tubular Bells" by Mike Oldfield from "The Exorcist": Horror with a certain prog-rock grandeur

"The Addams Family Theme": "They're creepy and they're kooky/Mysterious and spooky/They're altogether ooky." How can you argue with ooky?

Source: JS Online [1]