Horror Sound Effects Asbjoern Andersen


Interested in learning how to design horror sound effects - particularly targeted towards horror-type interfaces? Check out this exclusive, in-depth A Sound Effect tutorial by Chase Steele - and get 15 free sound effects from the project too!
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How to make Haunting Horror Sound Effects for UI / interfaces (includes free sounds!)


Topics & playing times:

2:09 Example preview • 3:50 Design talk • 9:50 Vibes track • 28:15 Interface overview • 31:24 Bio/electrical • 40:05 Radium patches • 49:21 Servos • 50:44 Squirmy stuff • 52:22 Hand insert • 57:30 Rock/key device • 60:04 Wrap-up

 

Download a selection of sounds from this project here (updated link)

A big thanks to Chase Steele and Sound Spark LLC for exclusively hosting this video on A Sound Effect. Find the Sound Spark Youtube channel here, and meet Sound Spark on Twitter here.

 

Popular sound effects libraries from Sound Spark:

Hear some of the popular sound effects libraries from Sound Spark below –
and browse their full catalog here:

  • Gore Sound Effects Gore (SSP) Play Track 257 sounds included, 13 mins total $19.99

    The Gore library contains 257 total sounds of squishes, smashes, squelches melee weapon attacks, zombies and more. All effects have been thoughtfully named and crafted into multiple variations making them extremely flexible and easy to use. This library will work well if you need ready to use sounds for your game or if you’re a sound editor needing some extra material for your latest project. Sounds are well rounded and simple enough to fit Sci-Fi, Horror, Fantasy and any other genre where you might need some blood and guts.

    Sound types include:

    • General Gore Attacks
    • Melee Weaponry
    • Basic Smashes, Hits and Slaps (Yeah Slaps).
    • Squishes and Squelches
    • Bonus Zombie Growls and Horror Ambience!
  • The Magic Spells, Buffs and Attacks library contains 507 total spell sounds. Each spell type has been thoughtfully named and crafted into multiple variations making them extremely flexible and easy to use. This library will work great for MMOs, RPGs and other fantasy style games. Of course, it will be great for film or any other form of media also! Many of these sounds are also well suited for Sci-Fi or Futuristic applications.

    Bonus Reaktor Ensemble:

    As if the sounds alone weren’t enough, we’re also including a special bonus in the form of a Native Instruments Reaktor Ensemble. We call it “The Mage”.. it is designed to allow you to take spell types, mash them together and create endless new iterations of material!

  • Metal Sound Effects Metal Hits, Scrapes and Squeaks Play Track 689 sounds included, 22 Minutes mins total $29.99

    The Metal Hits, Scrapes and Squeaks library contains a variety of small to medium sized metal props with each material type including multiple performance variations.

    Props include objects such as sheet metal, sledgehammers, paint cans, metal buckets, metal grating, metal marbles, cups, pots and pans, dry ice (contributing squeaks and squeals), metal bars, metal stands, chains and more.

    All recordings were made in a studio or iso booth environment to produce a very clean sounding library.  The library works perfectly as a construction or foley kit.  Files included were recorded at 24bit/96kHz.

  • This library includes a series of cinematic and basic whoosh, movement and transition effects.  It also includes a number of impactful drops.

    What makes this library unique is the varied amount of content and processing techniques used to create the movement effects.  Some effects are created totally organically, others manufactured with analog synths and others creatively processed from nothing other than atonal noise.

    Another great quality of these effects is a natural doppler effect is often incorporated.  This was done by re-recording some source elements and either moving the source or the mic itself.

    A slim library, of 127 sounds – it feels much larger in the amount of varied content that it includes.  This library is one I’ve personally used a lot and I’m very happy to bring it to you now!

    Sound types include:

    • Organic Whooshes
    • Designed Transition Effects
    • Tonal, Atonal and Noise asthetics
    • Drops and Impacts

    Get this in a bundle:This library is also included in the Forge Sound Design Toolkit Bundle

 


More on horror sound:

Behind the horror movie sound:

 
We’ve shared the story behind the sound for quite a few horror movies here on A Sound Effect – you can read them below:

Behind the brutal sound of ‘Halloween’ – with Will Files and P.K. Hooker
How the terrifying sounds of ‘The Haunting of Hill House’ were made – with Trevor Gates
How the haunting sound of ‘The Nun’ was crafted – with Bill R. Dean and Ron Eng
How ‘A Quiet Place’s essential sound was created – with Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl
Creating the dark, evil sounds of ‘Annabelle: Creation’ – with Bill R. Dean
Creating the sound of fear for ‘It Comes at Night’ – with Damian Volpe and Robert Fernandez
Behind the horrifying sound of ‘Alien: Covenant’ – with Oliver Tarney and Michael Fentum
Behind the scary sounds of ‘Blair Witch’ – with Andy Hay
How the creepy sound of ‘Lights Out’ was made – with Bill R. Dean
Young UK filmmaker creates award-winning horror sound: Here it is – and here’s how he did it
Creating the horrific sounds of ‘The Conjuring 2’ – with Joe Dzuban

 

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THE WORLD’S EASIEST WAY TO GET INDEPENDENT SOUND EFFECTS:
 
A Sound Effect gives you easy access to an absolutely huge sound effects catalog from a myriad of independent sound creators, all covered by one license agreement - a few highlights:

  • Uncategorized Overkill – Gore And Splatter Play Track 3390 sounds included, 160 mins total $149

    Unleash pure audio carnage with OVERKILL – a brutally detailed 5.7 GB sound library featuring 3390 hyperreal gore sound effects across 607 files. Whether you’re designing subtle, skin-crawling tension or full-blown splatter mayhem, Overkill gives you the raw, visceral tools to cover the entire spectrum of gore – from nuanced realism to over-the-top brutality.

     

    DESIGN KIT (360 Sounds – 60 Files)

    A collection of brutally crafted, drag-and-drop sound effects, organized into game-ready actions and categories.

    • Stab: Precise, piercing attacks with bladed weapons like knives, daggers, and swords.
    • Hit: Brutal strikes using blades such as machetes, katanas, and sabres.
    • Cut: Clean or messy slices delivered by weapons like katanas, knives, machetes, and sabres.
    • Slam: Heavy, crushing blows with blunt weapons like warhammers, morning stars, flails, crowbars – and even axes used with brute force.
    • Crush: Full-on head or body crushes – whatever happens when too much pressure turns flesh and bone into pulp.
    • Explode: Full-on body explosions – when guts, bones, and blood violently erupt in every direction at once.

    All of these categories are featured in both a realistic, organic style and an exaggerated, highly stylized, over-the-top version.

    In addition the Design Kit features Projectile Impacts from Guns, Shotguns and Arrows.

     

    BUILDING BLOCKS (384 Sounds – 64 Files)

    The goal behind our Building Blocks is to provide pre-designed sound layers that streamline your workflow. We’ve created straightforward, easy-to-use categories that let you quickly build new sounds or enhance your own designs.

    All following categories are available in both Wet and Dry:

    • Impact: Ideal as punchy sweeteners for heavy weapon hits and brutal moments.
    • Whoosh: Quick, clean lead-ins to enhance any kind of gore sound.
    • Crack: Perfect for highlighting the snap of shattered bones and broken bodies.
    • Tail: Drag and drop to add lingering, gruesome sustain to your gore effects.

     

    CONSTRUCTION KIT (2653 Sounds – 483 Files)

    For our Construction Kit, we wanted to give you the best of both worlds to meet (or should we say meat) all your needs. You’ll get cleaned raw recordings for full flexibility in your own processing, plus pre-processed and layered sounds to spark creativity, fuel inspiration, and give you everything you need for hyperrealistic gore design.

    Our Construction Kit includes:

    • Blood: Vile drips, juicy splatters, and bone-chilling squeezes.
    • Gut: Rich with drops, impacts, squishes, and visceral movement.
    • Flesh: Brutal impacts, rips, strains, and movements.
    • Bone: Crisp breaks and sharp snaps.
    • Texture: Hyperrealistic wet and dry constant textures.
    • Weapon: Resonant metal slices, stabs, and hits, as well as whooshes for weapon hits and ricochets.
  • Destruction & Impact Sounds Metamorphosis Play Track 2328 sounds included $190

    Metamorphosis is a huge collection of recorded source, synthesized material and hybrid sounds. The library was created to cover a wide range of themes, with rich textures, aggressive impacts and a large selection of pass bys, bass drops, pyrotechnics and many more types of material.

    All of the Recorded Section was captured at 384KHz with microphones capable of recording up to 200KHz among with more conventional mics. The resulting assets are sounds that can be stretched to new extremes for greater sound design opportunities.
    In many cases I took the liberty to slow down the assets while editing the sounds to deliver what I thought was the most useful version of a given recording though in most cases I have also included other takes at the original 384KHz sample rate to get the best of both worlds.

    All of the Synthesized Content was created in Serum while the Hybrid Section was created by manipulating the Recorded and Synthesized sounds.

    Techniques such as morphing were used to blur the lines in between the nature of the two sources, making for ambiguous yet extremely versatile material that can be employed on both realistic and abstract designs.

    Bonus: Two extra libraries included for free:
    This library also includes two additional releases from Mattia Cellotto - for free: Crunch Mode delivers 230 crunchy sounds made with a variety of vegetables, fresh bread, pizza crust and a selection of frozen goods. The Borax Experiment gets you 158 squishy, gory, slimy and gooey sounds.
  • Game Audio Packs - Game Sound Effects Libraries Retro Game Play Track 502 sounds included, 31 mins total $39.20

    Go (game audio) retro with all the classic 8-bit Arcade Game sound effects! Retro Game is here to offer you the ultimate sonic stockpile to turn your old school 80’s vintage production or idea to life! Over 500 game ready audio assets, over 30 minutes of pure 8-Bit epic-ness!

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Latest sound effects libraries:
 
  • They are all created using synthesizers and fx effects, making them ideal for use in sci-fi spaceships. There are 96 files in total, over 390 sound effects, 48KHz, 24Bit, wav.Thank you very much for your support. I hope you will enjoy it.

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  • MagicElement_Water
    101 sound effects,Water magic,different speed,strength of the attack and hit.
    48khz,24bit,stereo,using UCS metadata format.

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  • Metallic Atmospheres is a collection of designed ambiences crafted entirely from metallic source material. Our team recorded a wide variety of metal objects and surfaces, then applied advanced sound design techniques to transform them into evocative atmosphere tracks.

    This diverse assortment captures an extensive range of textures and emotions, from eerie resonances and unsettling tonal beds to harsh industrial environments. Perfect for quickly establishing a dark, immersive mood, these sounds are ideally suited for sci-fi, horror, dystopian, and post-apocalyptic productions.

    Every file has been meticulously edited for immediate use, so you can drag and drop them straight into your DAW timeline without extra cleanup. All sounds are delivered at 96kHz / 24-bit for maximum fidelity, giving you the flexibility to manipulate, stretch, and layer them further in your own designs. Each file has been tagged with UCS-compliant metadata, ensuring seamless integration into any professional sound effects workflow.

  • Metallic Impacts delivers a dynamic collection of strikes, crashes, and resonant hits created from a variety of metal objects. Each sound is provided in both raw and processed versions, giving you the choice between natural recordings for authentic realism or designed impacts for instant cinematic punch.

    Designed with versatility in mind, these sounds are perfect for trailers, action sequences, combat design, or building tension in horror and sci-fi contexts. Every file has been precisely edited for immediate use, recorded and mastered at 96kHz / 24-bit to preserve detail and allow for extreme processing. All files include UCS-compliant metadata, ensuring they drop seamlessly into your sound effects workflow.

  • Metallic Scrapes is a focused library of metal-on-metal movements, featuring a range of drags, scuffs, and surface scrapes. From short, subtle textures to longer, sustained scrapes, these sounds provide useful building blocks for adding grit, tension, or industrial detail to your projects.

    Each sound is included in both raw and processed versions, giving you flexibility to choose between clean recordings for natural realism or designed variants that are ready to drop straight into your timeline.

    While less dramatic than impacts or crashes, these textures are effective for layering into ambiences, creating transitional elements, or adding subtle tension in sci-fi, horror, or industrial contexts.

    All files are carefully edited and delivered in 96kHz / 24-bit quality, complete with UCS-compliant metadata for fast and accurate search results in your sound effects workflow.


   

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