Sometimes all it takes is a little bit of atmospheric music to set the Halloween mood.

1. Michael Jackson, "Thriller" (1982). Now of course, most of the album, including "PYT," is not at all Halloween-related, but you have to admit that on the song "Thriller" Vincent Price raps in a really scary voice.

2. Black Sabbath, "Paranoid" (1990). Contains all the dark, gloomy heavy-metal hits from Sabbath's Ozzy Osbourne years. Where else will you be able to hear "Rat Salad?"

3. Agatha Christie, "Pozornaya zvezda" (Shameful Star) (1993). It doesn't really matter which AC album you choose, they're just two morbid fellows from Yekaterinburg who spin out tune after tune about death, drugs and desolation.

4. Marilyn Manson, "Antichrist Superstar" (1996). One of the most intense, visceral, mechanical metal albums out there - it's been called a "horror-house of grisly atrocities that stains as indelibly as a bathful of warm blood." Plus he wears scary makeup.

5. Alice Cooper, "Killer" (1971). Any album that contains a song called "Halo of Flies" is good enough for our Halloween, not to mention the classic "Dead Babies."
6. Ministry, "The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste" (1989). Industrial kings of the '80s, filled with a hellish cross between speed metal and techno, plus blood-curdling vocals.

7. "Twin Peaks Soundtrack" (1990). Composed by Angelo Badalamenti and featuring vocals by the ethereal Julee Cruise, this is a chilling, weird soundtrack to a chilling, weird series. Enough to give you nightmares.

8. Metallica, "Master of Puppets" (1986). One of the defining albums of thrash metal, it focuses on the concept of power and its abuses and is a collection of intelligent music, played at about a hundred miles an hour.

9. David Bowie, "Heathen" (2002). Somber and sinister, calm and eerie, this album evokes childhood fears of having some kind of creep lurking in your parents' bedroom while you are home alone.

10. Air, "Virgin Suicides Soundtrack" (2000). The epitome of moody electronica, complete with spooky psychedelic touches. Great for those who like to space out in an atmosphere of creepiness.