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Master Post: Spooky Inspiration

🎃 👻 🦇 And so begins the month of October! 🎃 👻 🦇

@the-celestial-library has compiled a list of links to inspire that ghostly muse for the month of All Hallows Eve. Please be sure to share/reblog and, if you haven’t already, please check out our forum, Athenaeum, The Celestial Library. We host contests and various other activities for members of the community there.

WARNING! SOME LINKS CONTAIN MATURE CONTENT & UNCOMFORTABLE THEMES FOR SOME. THESE LINKS WILL BE MARKED AS FOLLOWS – * * *. STILL, WE ASK THAT VIEWERS TREAD CAREFULLY ON ALL LINKS.

Bloodcurdling Playlists:

1 Hour of Dark Music | Dark, Orchestral, Magic – Peter Gundry

1 Hour | Dark Magic Music | The Elixir of Life – Peter Gundry

1 Hour | Dark Magic Music | The Unspoken Tales – Peter Gundry

1 Hour of Dark Music | Magic / Vampiric / Orchestral – Peter Gundry

1 Hour of Dark Piano | Dark Piano for Dark Thoughts – Lucas King

1 Hour of Dark Winter Music & Gothic Music – Derek & Brandon Fiechter

1 Hour of Dark Vampiric Music [Dark, Seductive, Emotional, Gothic] – Peter Gundry

1 Hour of H.P. Lovecraft Music: Orchestral Ambient Creepy Horror – Graham Plowman

1 Hour of H.P. Lovecraft Music: The Great Old Ones and Other Beings – Graham Plowman

1 Hour of Scary Clown Music | Halloween Music – Lucas King

2 Hours of Dark Music – Adrian von Ziegler

Apocryphos, Kammarheit, Atrium Carceri - Onyx (Full Album) – DarkHouse Ambient

Azathoth 1 – Cryo Chamber

Azathoth 2 – Cryo Chamber

Born of the Night (Full Album) – Midnight Syndicate

Court of the Dead: Industrial Horror Music Mix – Horror Music World

Dark Ambient of Gothic Choirs and Ancient Cults – Cryo Chamber

Dark Choirs and Cathedrals Music Mix – Cryo Chamber

Dark Gothic Music of Abandoned Castles and Forgotten Temples – Cryo Chamber

Dark Waltz Music - Vampire Masquerade Collection – Peter Gundry

Gates of the Underworld – Cryo Chamber

Modern Noir Songs – Wiremux

Music from Ancient Civilizations to Space – Cryo Chamber

My Baroque Vampire Ball Playlist – Wiremux

Nyarlathotep 1 – Cryo Chamber

Nyarlathotep 2 – Cryo Chamber

Occult Ritual Music – Cryo Chamber

Psyclopean - The King In Yellow – Altrusian Grace Media

The Best of Dark Classical Music: Mysterious, Macabre, Creepy, Evil, Satanic, Spooky Pieces – Live Better Media

Vampyre (Full Album) – Midnight Syndicate

Walking Into Autumn ASMR Ambience – Miracle Forest

Yog-Sothoth 1 – Cryo Chamber

Yog-Sothoth 2 – Cryo Chamber

Creepy Podcasts:

Alice Isn’t Dead

Archive 81

Chilling Tales for Dark Nights: Scary Stories

CreepsMcPasta

Hollywood & Crime

Limetown

Lore

NoSleep

Sayer

The Black Tapes

The Deep Vault

The Magnus Archives

Unsolved Murders

Weird Things

Welcome to Night Vale

Eerie Quotes:

“Welcome to my nightmare. I think you’re going to like it.” – Alice Cooper

“Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.” – Arthur Conan Doyle

“Listen to them, the children of the night. What sweet music they make.” – Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?” – Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“We stopped checking for monsters under our bed when we realized they were inside us.” – Charles Darwin

“I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.” – Edgar Allen Poe

“There are some secrets, which do not permit themselves to be told.” – Edgar Allen Poe, The Man of the Crowd

“That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.” – H. P. Lovecraft

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” – H. P Lovecraft

“My roots, my roots run deep into the hollow!” – In This Moment, Roots

“Even the dead tell stories.” – Marcus Sedgwick, Revolver

“Shadows mutter, mist replies; darkness purrs as midnight sighs.” – Rusty Fischer

“Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals.” – Stephen King, Bag of Bones

“The world was full of monsters, and they were allowed to bite the innocent and the unwary.“ – Stephen King, Cujo

“You wake up in the dark and hear the screaming of the lambs.” – Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

“By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.” – William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“Hell is empty and the devils are here.” – William Shakespeare, The Tempest

Ghoulish Research Materials:

10 Terrifying Mythological Creatures From Around The World: A video exploring 10 very interesting and frightening monsters.

* * * ALIEN: What is Cosmic Horror?: A video exploring the influence of H.P. Lovecraft and a comparison to 2001: A Space Odyssey of this franchise as well as general sci-fi horror. (Warning: extreme gore)

Exploring the Cthulhu Mythos: A list of videos discussing Lovecraft’s little beasties.

Exploring Mythology - Halloween: A video exploring the holiday’s history.

Exploring Mythology - Werewolves: A video exploring the werewolf’s origins.

Exploring Mythology - Vampires: A video exploring the vampire’s origins.

Monster Wiki: A categories list of monsters and monster lore.

Missing 411: A book series documenting real and unusual missing persons cases. This podcast showcases interviews discusses these cases. (We also highly recommend buying the books!)

Necronomicon: A fictional grimoire appearing in the stories by horror writer H. P. Lovecraft and his followers.

* * * RagnarRox: a fantastic list of videos exploring different monsters. (Please be aware, some monster videos harbor content of sexual predation, non-con allusions, rape allegories, child abuse, descriptions of social isolation, etc.)

Shadowlands Index: A website of haunted places.

Haunted Aesthetics:

@acatnamedbinx

@anessenceofautumn

@autumnappreciations

@autumnhollow

@everythingautumn

@ghostly-lullaby

@hall–o–ween

@halloweengal-eek

@halloweengothic

@halloween-things