# Help me find some really spooky piano-only music? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 20, 2004, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-some-really-spooky-piano-only-music/265144 "2004-09-20T15:58:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2004, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-some-really-spooky-piano-only-music/265144/1 "2004-09-20T15:58:04Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![gonzoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@gonzoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzoron)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2004, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-some-really-spooky-piano-only-music/265144/2 "2004-09-20T18:10:36Z")
Could it be the theme from Eyes Wide Shut? ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2004, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-some-really-spooky-piano-only-music/265144/3 "2004-09-20T18:47:08Z")
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](http://www.fridaythe13thfilms.com/saga/part1/harrymanfredini.html) ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2004, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-some-really-spooky-piano-only-music/265144/4 "2004-09-20T18:56:02Z")
Ok, thanks. I will look into both of those. Anyone know others to add? ---
**Author:** ![PathfinderLester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f14d63/32.png) [@PathfinderLester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PathfinderLester)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-some-really-spooky-piano-only-music/265144/5 "2012-12-31T20:44:38Z")
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. > **[Gargoyles, Grotesques & Chimeras: Listening to The Anatomy of Melancholy](https://becunningandfulloftricks.com/2012/12/31/gargoyles-grotesques-chimeras-listening-to-the-anatomy-of-melancholy/)** > > Back in the late 1980’s when I was in school in Boston, I frequently visited a place on Newbury Street called “Gargoyles Grotesques & Chimeras.” Part store and part museum, it… 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. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![SerafinaPekala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@SerafinaPekala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SerafinaPekala)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-some-really-spooky-piano-only-music/265144/6 "2012-12-31T20:50:19Z")
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 [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/PQk74wJvsdU/hqdefault.jpg "TCHAIKOVSKY - "Swan Lake" Theme from Black Swan Piano Version") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQk74wJvsdU) oops sorry… zombie thread. ---
**Author:** ![Ashley\_Pomeroy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@Ashley\_Pomeroy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashley_Pomeroy)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-some-really-spooky-piano-only-music/265144/7 "2012-12-31T21:08:37Z")
I give you Karlheinz Stockhausen’s _[Mantra](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37cLn5VCubY)_, 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. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2013, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-some-really-spooky-piano-only-music/265144/8 "2013-01-01T13:33:56Z")
The soundtrack to the great film [_Moon_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_%28film%29) consisted mostly of disconcerting piano playing… ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-some-really-spooky-piano-only-music/265144/9 "2013-01-02T22:34:14Z")
> [@PathfinderLester](#): > > 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. > > [Gargoyles, Grotesques & Chimeras: Listening to The Anatomy of Melancholy | Be Cunning and Full of Tricks](http://becunningandfulloftricks.com/2012/12/31/gargoyles-grotesques-chimeras-listening-to-the-anatomy-of-melancholy/) > > 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. 🙂 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. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2013, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-some-really-spooky-piano-only-music/265144/10 "2013-01-03T00:17:37Z")
There is other orchestration in both, but I like the Depeche Mode b-sides [Sibeling](http://youtu.be/pFKzRQ9ayL4?t=18s) and [Memphisto](http://youtu.be/K0WFRV37oRM?t=9s). ---
**Author:** ![Pitchmeister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pitchmeister/32/3459_2.png) [@Pitchmeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pitchmeister)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2013, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-some-really-spooky-piano-only-music/265144/11 "2013-01-03T08:48:24Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2013, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-some-really-spooky-piano-only-music/265144/12 "2013-01-03T13:02:22Z")
> [@Pitchmeister](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2013, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-some-really-spooky-piano-only-music/265144/13 "2013-01-03T19:52:47Z")
Liszt’s [Totentanz](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGBXA1tBiLw) is pretty spooky with a [macabre](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totentanz_(Liszt)) theme.