Scary music is a big part of a Halloween party or a haunted house. Sometimes people play horror movie themes or the themes from old TV shows which people associate with Halloween, such as The Addams Family or The Munsters.
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The opening to "Toccata and Fugue in D minor", a piece of classical music written in the 18th century by the German composer Johann Sebastian Bach, is often associated with Halloween.
The funeral march from Frederic Chopin's "Piano Sonata No. 2", composed between 1837 and 1839, is probably the piece of music most commonly associated with death in the Western world.
Totentanz ("Dance of the Dead") by Franz Liszt, composed between 1838 and 1849, revised in 1853 and 1859.
"Night on Bald Mountain", written by the Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky in 1867, is a pieces of classical music often associated with Halloween. A segment based on the piece of music is included in the 1940 Disney animated film Fantasia.
"Funeral March of a Marionette", written by the French composer Charles Gounod in 1872, is sometimes associated with Halloween. It is used as the heme tune to the American TV series Alfred Hitchcock Presents, which originally aired between 1955 and 1965.
"Danse Macabre", written by the French composer Camille Saint-Saëns in 1874, is a piece of classical music often associated with Halloween.
"In the Hall of the Mountain King", written in 1876 by the Norwegian composer Edward Grieg, is a piece of classical music often associated with Halloween.