Cult of the Great Pumpkin

Jill Tracy’s “The Secret Music of Lily Dale”

So I let October come and go without really posting anything to the Cult of the Great Pumpkin site this year – I was focused on the #FrightFall2022 daily drawing challenge, which just didn’t leave time for much else this year. I hope everybody had a super spooky October! As we begin the two month grind that is “The Holiday Season”, Jill Tracy has stepped up to make it just a little more…

Kicking Off Spooky Season with Spooky Shirts!

Chad Savage has 3 new SPOOKY designs just in time for the Autumn Solstice! I LIKE IT SPOOKY Version 2 One of the first designs Chad Savage ever created and had printed as t-shirts himself, in the ensuing 10 years since its creation it has been stolen and slapped on pirated products all over the internet. Tired of sending takedown notices and trying to police it, Chad decided to update the design…

SALE! Get 25% OFF All Chad Savage Original Artwork & Art Prints Thru 11/30/21 with Coupon Code ARTWORK2021

Now through the end of November, get any Chad Savage original drawing, painting or signed/numbered art print for 25% OFF with coupon code ARTWORK2021 at ShopSinister.com – this includes all images from the recent #FrightFall2021 Drawing Challenge (pictured here)!

14 New Chad Savage T-shirt Designs from #FrightFall2021

Chad Savage has been participating in Retro Supply Co.’s “Fright-Fall Drawing Challenge” this October; as of the date of this posting, he’s completed 14 of the challenges and, now, those 14 designs are available in his web store as t-shirts! Get all 14 designs (9 pictured here) at https://shopsinister.com/collections/newest-additions, or just search “FrightFall2021” at ShopSinister.com! Part of…

Halloween Booootie 8 Mashup Mix Now Available (FREE!)

Bootie Mashups has released a set of 13 spooky tracks every Halloween season for years now, and 2021’s Halloween BOOOOTIE 8 is a rollicking ride! Opening with an amazing mix of “Weird Science” and “Ghostbusters”, and ending with Agatha’s “It Was Agatha All Along” song from WandaVision mixed with, among other things, “The Munsters Theme”, the whole thing is just FUN, and even better, FREE! Also…

“October Ghosts and Autumn Dreams: More Poems for Halloween” from K. A. Opperman

In this brilliant follow-up to Past the Glad and Sunlit Season, K. A. Opperman takes us to an enchanted autumnal land overflowing with candy—sometimes sweet, sometimes cursed by witches. Jack-o’-lanterns keep watch as we travel through Pumpkin Country, questing for the rich rewards that are to be found in contemplation of October’s pastoral and many-colored tapestry. These stories told in rhyme,…

Halloween at High Noon Presents PlasmaTronic

October wouldn’t be October without a new release from Halloween at High Noon, and 2021’s release “PlasmaTronic” just hit Bandcamp (other services to follow). For the last few years, each HAHN release had moved towards gloomy noise and atmospheric ambience; “PlasmaTronic”, however, is firmly beat-driven, and has more in common with earlier HAHN releases. Listen for yourself at…

Bojo’s Spooky Mix Tape 2021 “Mix of Misfortune” Now Available (FREE)!

Every Spooky Season Bojo hits us with another eclectic mix of creepy themed music (for free!) and 2021’s “Mix of Misfortune” is now available for your listening / downloading pleasure at https://bojospookymixtapes.bandcamp.com/album/bojos-mix-of-misfortune-spooky-mix-tape-2021!

Sam Haynes’ Haunted House Party

Sam Haynes and Gary Bennett return with a new collection of spooky synthwave and eerie electro music. This year featuring fantastic new songs from Destini Beard and Jenna Learoyd. Sam and Gary’s new singles have been featured on BBC radio this year, soundtracked several Horror shorts and their music is the official theme to Scare Kingdom UK this year. The album is a modern take on 80s horror…

Slasher Dave: The Jack-O-Lantern Murders

Last October Slasher Dave gave us Night of the Jack-O-Lantern, 8 tracks of menacing moody music that referenced classic 70s and 80s horror movie scores from Goblin, Frizzi, Carpenter, etc., with that ineffable Slasher Dave vibe. Today he brings us the follow up, The Jack-O-Lantern Murders, double the size (15 tracks) and keeping that 70s synthy stalker vibe. Dig it! Listen/Buy @…

Cult of the Great Pumpkin Halloween Megamix 2021 on Spotify!

Cult of the Great Pumpkin Halloween 2021 Megamix: Listen at http://svi.link/greatpumpkin2021 Chad here – last year I built a massive Spotify Halloween playlist. I had a few goals – primarily I wanted to do my best to avoid the same tracks that every other Halloween playlist tends to include. On the other hand, there are certain songs that just had to be there, so whenever possible, I looked for…

Midnight Syndicate Releases Bloodlines Mini-Album, A Prequel To The 13th Hour

Midnight Syndicate has just released a mini-album entitled Bloodlines. Their 14th studio album, Bloodlines is a prequel to the duo’s best-selling, haunted mansion-themed, The 13th Hour. The new release draws listeners deeper into the world of the Haverghast family, a sinister clan whose dark secrets were first introduced on the 2001 asylum-themed album, Gates of Delirium. “The events that occur…

Midnight Syndicate Releases First Live Album “Live Shadows”!

Nearly three decades into their career, dark music pioneers Midnight Syndicate will release their first live album, Live Shadows, on June 11. Recorded between 2014 and 2019 at their multimedia Midnight Syndicate Live! shows at Cedar Point HalloWeekends, the album features new material and newly-arranged live versions of music spanning their career. A series of music videos highlighting each of…

Halloweek Music Round Up

As we head into the last week of October, here are a bunch of recently-released boo-tiful tunes to get you in the Halloween spirit:

Creature Feature covers The Hearse Song

Last year they gave us “Grim Grinning Ghosts” and this year they’re covering “The Hearse Song”; I like this tradition and hope that Creature Feature continues to cover spooky classics in the future! https://creaturefeature.ban…

“Night of the Jack-O-Lantern” from Slasher Dave!

Sinister music stalwart Slasher Dave has served up a spooky synthwave treat that can’t be beat with “Night of the Jack-O-Lantern”, 8 tracks of menacing moody music that reference classic 80s horror movie scores from everybody from Goblin to Carpenter, with that ineffable Slasher Dave vibe. This is music to stalk by!

Listen & purchase at https://slasherdaveofficial.bandcamp.com/album/night-of-the…

Halloween Musical Mayhem with Sean Keller & Friends!

Sean Keller, co-writer of Hulu & Blumhouse’s ALL THAT WE DESTROY and composer/creator of SLASHED! The Musical, has created two albums of Halloween music – “The Killer Sounds of Halloween” (2019) and “Return of the Killer Sounds of Halloween” (2020). Here’s the thing, though – while both albums present as compilations assembled from very different bands, it’s actually all Sean & Friends creating…