Micro-post #223: My favorite Halloween albums (and an Instagram post of silly spooky "Pants" comics) [Halloween 2026 #1]

While the season starts in early September for me (immediately after Labor Day), I'm going to dedicate several of my posts this month to the actual Most Wonderful Time of the Year: Halloween. So expect more posts dedicated to spooky, ooky, kooky stuff for the next four weeks. Starting with this entry, I'm providing some of my favorite albums I like to play on repeat during October to get me in a festive mood. None of these are particularly scary (Halloween's not just about horror and chills...), but they definitely fit the mood in some way or another. Many will be familiar, but also not as ubiquitous as "The Monster Mash" or "Ghostbusters," so there's that...

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Bat Out of Hell by Meat Loaf (1977)

Killing Joke by Killing Joke (1980)

Illuminations by Buffy Sainte-Marie (1969)

Floodland by Sisters of Mercy (1987)

Excitable Boy by Warren Zevon (1978)

Closer by Joy Division (1980)

Billion Dollar Babies by Alice Cooper (1973)

Juju by Siouxsie and the Banshees (1982)

The Rocky Horror Show by The Original Roxy Cast (1974)

Songs the Lord Taught Us by The Cramps (1980)

Mask by Bauhaus (1981)

666 by Aphrodite's Child (1972)

Murder Ballads by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (1996)

Zombie by Fela Kuti (1976)

A Dense Swarm of Ancient Stars by I Monster (2009)

Dead Man's Party by Oingo Boingo (1985)