Every year, people go ape shit over "Bela Lugosi's Dead" for one night. While we love us some Bauhaus, we know that there are far more frightening songs than the one just mentioned. Hell, even Bauhaus has some more terrifying tunes. Here's our list. Add your own.

1. Bauhaus-- "Party of the First Part"
A movie sample winding around David J.'s eerie dub-influenced base. I put this on my answering machine in 9th grade and then realized that all of the other goths had the same idea.

2. Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue-- "Where the Wild Roses Grow"
Murder as only a perky Australian pop star and her surly, post-whatever counterpart could retell.

3. Lydia Lunch and Clint Ruin-- "Don't Fear the Reaper"
Sure you are familiar with the work of BOC, but it's just so much more chilling in the hands of these two.

4. Siouxsie and the Banshees-- "Voodoo Dolly"
The song goes on forever, particularly if you have the live version of it, and Siouxsie wails like she has the hem of her really big lace skirt caught in her throat and she can't see through her bangs and she's about to fall right over the edge.

5. Spell-- "Theme From Rosemary's Baby"
Seriously, Boyd Rice kind of creeps me out anytime of the year, but he's at his most wicked when covering sugary AM pop songs with former Strawberry Switchblade singer Rose McDowell and then throwing this dead-on rendition of the theme from this horror movie on at the end.

6. Current 93-- "Christopher Robin"
This is on Current 93's record Island, which is my personal fave and ridiculously hard to find (at least prior to the Internet). It's the story of a boy selling his soul to the devil and frontman David Tibet delivers it like Vincent Price with folkie ambitions.

7. Skinny Puppy-- "Killing Game"
Listen to the piano at the beginning of the song before you fall asleep. Better yet, watch the video before you fall asleep.

8. Cocteau Twins-- "Strange Fruit"
Yup, the Billie Holiday song. Hearing Liz Fraser singing comprehensible words is scary enough, but her voice makes the song seem unnatural.

9. Sisters of Mercy-- "Marian"
Pretty much any Sisters song could fit on this list. Andrew Eldritch's voice makes the hair on my arms stand at attention and he did adopt a stage name that means "eerie." "Marian" is included because of the way he practically howls the name throughout the course of the song.

10. Apotheosis-- "O Fortuna"
Some people are scared by the epic sounds stemming from Carmina Burana. Others are scared by 1992 rave anthems. Either way, this will work.


Compiled by Liz and Balthazar