Creepy Music

Examples: A cartoon ghost sneaks through a costume party

Try Mystery, Strings and Spooky under a trick-or-treat animation; compare the glockenspiel texture with the music-box sound you have in mind.

Try Lurking Monster: Featuring cheeky glockenspiels, werewolf howls, mischievous strings.

Examples: A figure appears at the end of a hallway

Start with Horror, Piano and Dark for a hallway reveal; listen for the repetitive lead, then decide if percussion hits leave room for the cut.

Try Boogeyman: A single, repetitive piano lead stalks through the shadows.

Examples: An investigator examines photographs during a recorded interview

If you need instrumental creepy music beneath a crime documentary interview, try Horror, Piano and Haunting; check vocals against narration because the described choir may compete.

Try Cool Sea Breeze: A combination of romantic piano theme and scary choir.

Examples: A pursuer crosses empty streets after dark

Build a shadowy pursuit montage with Thriller, Analog Synth and Dark; compare the suspenseful passages with scene changes before shortlisting a cue.

Try Haunted Images: Has a sense of danger, inner conflict, suspense, mystery..

Examples: A camera enters rooms in an abandoned house

Set Doom, Sound Effects and Dangerous beneath an abandoned-house walkthrough; listen for how the low distorted-guitar texture holds tension between visual reveals.

Try Dark Horror: The result is a very unnerving and unsettling instrumental track..