#SpookyAllYear? WHY YES, yes I am. What an excellent idea from Faith McKay at The Midnight Society!
Since mid-November means we're thigh-deep in the churn of NaNoWriMo, I thought I'd share a few useful spooky writing resources in the form of atmospheric music to keep the prose flowing.
Like all things spooky, of course, the helpfulness of a given soundtrack for these purposes is going to vary greatly according to your project du jour and your taste. My own taste tends to run to quietly moody, contemplative instrumentals these days, which seems to suit the quietly spooky contemporary settings I'm trying to paint.
Two standbys in this vein that have been the perfect backdrop for slow-building hauntings and resentful semi-sentient exurban wilderness:
Since mid-November means we're thigh-deep in the churn of NaNoWriMo, I thought I'd share a few useful spooky writing resources in the form of atmospheric music to keep the prose flowing.
Like all things spooky, of course, the helpfulness of a given soundtrack for these purposes is going to vary greatly according to your project du jour and your taste. My own taste tends to run to quietly moody, contemplative instrumentals these days, which seems to suit the quietly spooky contemporary settings I'm trying to paint.
Two standbys in this vein that have been the perfect backdrop for slow-building hauntings and resentful semi-sentient exurban wilderness:
If you want to get a smidgen more epic, you can't go wrong with Hans Zimmer. The first soundtrack of his I ever bought was Crimson Tide, which leavens stirring spikes of grim militaristic action with long, tense, broody, emotional intervals. His stuff is all magnificent, but I haven't yet found an album that surpasses this one for my purposes. (The OST for The Da Vinci Code is sounding promising, though!)
The full OST is not available on YouTube (there are playlists, but I find the ads embedded in those annoying as hell) but it IS on Spotify. Here's the first track, which is a pretty representative sample.
The full OST is not available on YouTube (there are playlists, but I find the ads embedded in those annoying as hell) but it IS on Spotify. Here's the first track, which is a pretty representative sample.
Shading further into fantasy territory, Naz Kutub tipped me off to this lovely album by the always amazing Coeur de Pirate, which strikes me as having a spooky flavour (or maybe just a melancholy one) - either way, I've found it helpful.
Do you have other spooky music up your sleeve? Tell meeeeeee!
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