Halloween.

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Happy Halloween! I was going to make an entire 80-minute mix of Halloween-esque songs but I didn't think of the idea until yesterday and realized that it probably wouldn't be very good if I tried to compile it in such a hurry. So, instead, here are ten songs that sort of evoke a Halloween-y feeling. They aren't really directly related; most of them just give off a creepy/scary/haunting vibe lyrically and/or musically and then there's a few that mention appropriate things like ghosts, coffins, dead people, etc. I don't know many actual Halloween songs and I guess it's better to go with songs you can actually enjoy year-round anyway! Here they are...

• Agent Ribbons - Obituary

All you ladies wonder what the scene's like six feet under. Let me tell you, life ain't the only test. If you've got a man then hold him tight; make sure you're buried side by side 'cause the afterlife is full of loneliness.

• Eisley - Invasion

All in time, you will be one of us, painless, us, blameless. Go to sleep, this won't hurt a bit - shifting your shape to our shells.

• Fiona Apple - Sally's Song (from The Nightmare Before Christmas)

I sense there's something in the wind that seems like tragedy's at hand and though I'd like to stand by him, can't shake this feeling that I have - the worst is just around the bend.

• Imogen Heap - Rake It In

Do you know what my chopping block's for? Do you know what my hanging braid's for? Do you know what my chamber maid's for? Do you know what I have in store for you?

• Kate Bush - Hammer Horror

Who calls me from the other side of the street? And who taps me on the shoulder? I turn around but you're gone. I've got a hunch that you're following, to get your own back on me. All I want to do is forget you, friend.

• Lisa Germano - ... A Psychopath

A psychopath, a psychopath, he says he loves me. And I'm alone and I am cold and paralyzed - I can't move.

• Metric - Calculation Theme

Tonight your ghost will ask my ghost, "Where is the love?" Tonight your ghost will ask my ghost, "Who here is in line for a raise?" Tonight your ghost will ask my ghost, "Where is the love?" Tonight your ghost will ask my ghost, "Who put these bodies between us?"

• Neko Case - Dirty Knife

He sang nursery rhymes to paralyze the wolves that eddy out the corner of his eyes; squared him frozen where he stood, in the glow of the furniture piled high for firewood and the blood runs crazy with giant strides. And the woodsman failed to breech those fangs in time so they dragged him through the underbrush wearing three winter coats and a dirty knife.

• Rasputina - Gingerbread Coffin

We looked down at the ground and into her eyes, passed around an old teacup filled up with dead flies - surprise, surprise! Were brought but not used, a collection of knives. We'd remember this moment for all of our lives. She'll rise, she'll rise, she'll rise!

• Tilly and the Wall - Nights of the Living Dead

It's Friday night down on North Avenue where the gas station parking lot prostitutes tried to fix their hair in our rearview mirrors. You know we're just trying to get to the club and shake our asses.