It is that time of year when producers and party planners start searching for horror music and scary sound effects for their productions and Halloween parties.

Free Royalty Free Sound Effect Clip
Here is this week’s free royalty free sound effect clip called Scream Female Horror:
scream_female_horror_2.mp3

Here is a convenient list of links pointing to all of our mast scary and horrific stock music beds and scary sound effects.

Horror Music Tracks for Halloween
Choose from over 100 scary music tracks and horror music beds here on the musicloops.com site in Horror > Suspense music genre:

Horror Background Music

Horror Music Collection
If you need lots of Horror Music plus some scary sound effects check out our Horror! collection on partnersinrhyme.com:

Horror! scary music beds, horror stings and slams plus scary sound effects

Scary Sound Effects Collection
We also have a brand new collection of scary sound effects available here:

Scary Sound Effects

More Horror Sound Effects
Our catalog of horror sound effects on sound-effect.com is growing every week. Check out some of these categories in the Horror Sounds genre:

Accents
Aliens
Ambience
Body Fall
Body Hits
Bone Break
Dinosaur
Dragon
Ghost
Monster
Production Elements
Robot

We recently visited Fes, Morocco for a week or so. We stayed in a beautiful hotel just on the edge of the Medina on a hill. It was a perfect spot to record the Call to Prayer that happens 5 times a day beginning at 5AM.
For those that might not be familiar with the Call to Prayer it is one of the strangest things you’ve ever heard, especially in the Medina as there are hundreds of mosques and minarets, all equipped with distorted loudspeakers and cheap microphones. The elder of the mosque starts wailing into this old fashioned PA system, then times that by 200 with each mosque trying to outdo the next in volume. It is eerie sounding.
It goes on for a while and is basically just a reminder to get to the mosque to do your prayer ritual.

Here is one of our recordings of the Call to Prayer:
call_to_prayer-fr9t_11-02.mp3

One of my latest uploads to sound-effect.com is called Cannon Battle.
It is a recording of the revolutionary re-enactment group here in Gracia (Barcelona, Spain).
All of the actors have a gun called a Blunderbuss. The guns are enormous and enormously loud and the revolutionary soldiers roam through our streets with them firing at will.
It is an awesome sound to wake up to.
So, I woke up and took my NAGRA out to record the Blunderbuss Battle.
When I got back to the studio to edit the sounds I tried pitching it down without changing the length and it accidentally turned into a Canon Battle.

Right-click (control-click on a Mac) and choose save as:
cannon_battle.mp3

I’m making this available royalty free to my blog readers and especially to Machinima producers as I have been talking to some of them recently and they seem to be having a hard time finding high quality music and sound effects for their productions (for free since most of them are broke).
I will posting more free stuff every week.

www.freesoundeffectsandloops.com is a great sound effects site from another one of our contributers to the constantly growing royalty free sound effects collection at www.sound-effect.com.

Here’s a site I ran across from a potential PIR composer.
There are 17 cool sound effects for you to download on this page:

Free Sound Effects from Soundsage

There are also thousands of free PIR sound effects in the sound effects section of our website.

Partners In Rhyme is now actively looking for sound designers who have catalogs of sound effects that they would like to distribute through our network of websites.
We have been working very hard for last year on our www.sound-effect.com site and it is now working really well and has been moved to a new faster server due to the traffic load it has been receiving.
We have uploaded 5000 sound effects into the database and would like to hear from any sound designers who might be interested in contributing.
We offer a 60/40 (in favor of the contributor) non-exclusive deal.
Please contact me via the www.sound-effect.com contact page if you are interested.

UTEMS is currently one of my favorite sites for free royalty free sound effects

The list isn’t very organized and the names aren’t always informative but that’s half the fun of it, everything is a surprise.

I’d say these sounds are good for mixing into your music rather than for use in professional situations where higher quality is needed.

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