Help me find some really spooky piano-only music?

I want to find some music like I have heard before in the religious relic store (Gargoyle store) on Newbury Street in Boston. It is this really spooky music that is just the high piano keys being played one at a time in slow tempo. I have know idea where to find something like that? Any other spooky piano music would be great too.

Thanks for your knowledge!

Could it be the theme from Eyes Wide Shut?

Get thee to Harry Manfredini. He did many wonderful piano-based soundtracks for horror and slasher movies in the '80s. He does some very spooky work.

http://www.fridaythe13thfilms.com/saga/part1/harrymanfredini.html

Ok, thanks. I will look into both of those. Anyone know others to add?

If you’d like a recording of the piano music that used to play in the Gargoyles Grotesques & Chimeras store, I have a free mp3 copy on my blog.

The song is called “The Anatomy of Melancholy.”

FYI, I found this old forum thread while Googling for anything related to the store. Ah, memories. :slight_smile:

I always thought Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake Theme was spooky ever since seeing one of the very old Dracula b&w’s where the brides were coming out of their coffins in the cellar at dusk

oops sorry… zombie thread.

I give you Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Mantra, a duet for two prepared pianos, ring modulators, and morse code. Also - man from 2004- I want to make it clear that although George Bush wins re-election, he doesn’t leave much of a legacy. Also, the world doesn’t end in 2012, or at least it hasn’t yet.

The soundtrack to the great film Moon consisted mostly of disconcerting piano playing…

That’s awesome. Thanks. I am sorry that Gargoyles Grotesques & Chimeras is gone now. That was the strangest store I have ever seen anywhere partially because I know it wasn’t a joke.

There is other orchestration in both, but I like the Depeche Mode b-sides Sibeling and Memphisto.

Wow, how rarely is the OP still around for an 8-year-old zombie and gets precisely what he was looking for by a new user who found the boards through Google? Very nice!

Sometimes I read a zombie thread about a musical or video subject and think “Why didn’t they just look it up on YouTube?” and then I remember that YouTube has only been around since about 2005, and was barely a resource for anything useful until 2006. That’s only a few years since it went from nothing to indispensable.

Liszt’s Totentanz is pretty spooky with a macabre theme.