Top 100 Best Halloween Songs for Your All Hallows' Eve Party
Turn your Halloween bash into a Monster Mash! These are 100 of our favorite Halloween songs, from hallowed fright-night classics to perennial pop anthems to movie soundtracks to the spookiest radio hits - well-known and obscure - we think you'll find songs to have your party people rising from the dead to bust out spooky moves all night long. NOTE: links go to Apple Music, and you'll also find a link at the bottom of the song or the album the song is on to purchase it from iTunes.
Example:
- Time Warp - The Rocky Horror Picture Show
- Monster Mash - Bobby "Boris" Pickett
- Somebody's Watching Me - Rockwell
- A Nightmare On My Street - D.J. Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince
- Thriller - Michael Jackson
- Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr.
- Bela Lugosi's Dead - Bauhaus
- I Put a Spell On You - Screamin' Jay Hawkins
- This Is Halloween - Nightmare Before Christmas
- Turn Off the Light - Kim Petras featuring Elvira, Mistress of the Dark
- Bark at the Moon - Ozzy Osbourne
- Welcome to My Nightmare - Alice Cooper
- Werewolves of London - Warren Zevon
- Everyday (Is Halloween) - Ministry
- Pet Sematary - The Ramones
- Re: Your Brains - Jonathan Coulton
- Weird Science - Oingo Boingo
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Theme from the TV Series - Nerf Herder
- Haunted — Beyonce
- Moon Over Bourbon Street - Sting
- Nature Trail to Hell - "Weird Al" Yankovic
- The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun - Julie Brown
- Close Your Eyes - Kim Petras
- My Son, the Vampire - Allan Sherman
- With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm - Stanley Holloway
- Bloodletting (The Vampire Song) - Concrete Blonde
- Great Pumpkin Waltz - Vince Guaraldi
- The Devil Went Down to Georgia - The Charlie Daniels Band
- Voodoo Child (Slight Return) - Jimi Hendrix
- The Witch Queen Of New Orleans - Redbone
- Swamp Witch - Jim Stafford
- They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back from the Dead!! Ahhhh! - Sufjan Stevens
- Cemetary Gates - The Smiths
- Bury a Friend - Billie Eilish
- Superstition - Stevie Wonder
- Witchy Woman - Eagles
- My Old Flame - Spike Jones & His City Slickers
- Please Mr. Gravedigger - David Bowie
- The X Files Theme - John Beal
- Iron Man - Black Sabbath
- Tubular Bells (Theme From "The Exorcist") - Mike Oldfield
- Psycho Killer - Talking Heads
- Season of the Witch - Donovan
- Hell - Squirrel Nut Zippers
- Halloween - Mudhoney
- Living Dead Girl - Rob Zombie
- Love Song for a Vampire - Annie Lennox
- O Death - Ralph Stanley
- Sittin' Up With the Dead - Ray Stevens
- Are You Ready For Freddy - Fat Boys
- The Creature from the Black Lagoon - Dave Edmunds
- Red Right Hand - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
- The Legend of Wooley Swamp - The Charlie Daniels Band
- Sympathy for the Devil - The Rolling Stones
- The Addams Family - Main Theme - Vic Mizzy
- (Ghost) Riders In the Sky - Johnny Cash
- People Who Died - The Jim Carroll Band
- Stranger Things (Main Title Theme) — Baltic House Orchestra
- Devil In My Car - The B-52's
- I Walked With a Zombie - Roky Erickson & the Aliens
- Burn the Witch - Queens of the Stone Age
- Halloween - Dead Kennedys
- Boris the Spider - The Who
- Highway to Hell - AC/DC
- Shout At the Devil - Mötley Crüe
- Burn the Witch - Radiohead
- Ghost In This House - Alison Krauss
- Gravedigger - Willie Nelson
- Halloween On the Barbary Coast - The Flaming Lips
- Hellhound On My Trail - Robert Johnson
- I Want My Baby Back - Jimmy Cross
- Werewolf - Cat Power
- Fresh Blood - Eels
- Elizabeth - Ghost
- Barton Hollow - The Civil Wars
- Killer - King Diamond
- The Ghost Who Walks - Karen Elson
- Blue Veins - The Raconteurs
- Mr. Splitfoot - Paris Motel
- 81. Cemetery Polka - Tom Waits
- 82. The Ghost of Genova Heights - Stars
- 83. Eli, the Barrow Boy - The Decemberists
- 84. The Curse - Josh Ritter
- 85. Cold Blows the Wind - Ween
- 86. Dead Man's Party - Oingo Boingo
- 87. Fantasia: A Night on Bald Mountain - London Symphony Orchestra
- 88. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
- 89. Scarecrow - Beck
- 90. Opening Themes: Dark Shadows / Collinwood - The Robert Cobert Orchestra
- 91. Night after Night - NoiseControllers
- 92. Murder Of The Lawson Family - Dave Alvin
- 93. Werewolf Bar Mitzvah - Jeff Richmond & Tracy Morgan
- 94. I Love the Dead - Alice Cooper
- 95. I Was a Teenage Werewolf - The Cramps
- 96. Dig Up Her Bones - The Misfits
- 97. The Killing Moon - Echo & The Bunnymen
- 98. Lucifer Sam - Pink Floyd
- 99. I Am Stretched On Your Grave - Sinéad O'Connor
- 100. Witch Hunt - Rush
Also check out our other Top Song lists. These have no particular ranking, they're just some of our favorite songs.