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Scary, creepy, nasty horror sound effects and gore sounds
Monster movement brings you a quirky collection of otherworldly creatures, built for your next horror project.
Multiple Foley recordings have been meticulously layered and crafted to bring you a sophisticated library of horror movements. This library consists of Yeti footsteps, slimy creatures, metal hands, mechanical movements and more.
Our Audio Craftsmen have carefully edited each sound for maximum sonic clarity so that you can drop each sound directly into your project timeline and get down to work with minimal fuss.
All sounds are delivered in 24Bit 192kHz format allowing further sonic manipulation and have been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.
Ghostly Presences is a collection of ambiences made specifically for use in your horror genre projects.
Synth-generated drones and recordings of instruments and voice were manipulated to afford haunting and unsettling horror ambiences. This library comprises a variety of sounds crafted for layering or individual use. Included are choral wails, resonant winds, deep drones, electrical interference, haunting whispers and more; the perfect selection for enhancing your horror soundscapes in film, TV, game audio and real-world projects!
Our Audio Craftsmen have carefully edited each sound for maximum sonic clarity so that you can drop each sound directly into your project timeline and get down to work with minimal fuss.
All sounds are delivered in 24Bit 192kHz format allowing further sonic manipulation and have been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.
Screaming Designed is a sequel to one of our most popular sound effect libraries to date. We manipulated loop group and individual recordings of different male and female screams to create otherworldly, horrifying and mystical sound effects for your perusal. This collection contains everything from monsters, dragons, dinosaurs and toy soldiers all the way to giants and ghostly whispers, providing perfect audio content to spice up your film, tv, audiobook and game productions.
Our Audio Craftsmen recorded performances of our in-house voice artists using mono and stereo microphones to give you maximum flexibility. The source sounds were taken from our incredibly popular ‘Screaming’ and ‘Screaming Vol. 2’ libraries which were captured in our foley & voice recording suite, which has been used to record loop groups for major TV broadcasters.
All of the sounds are meticulously edited, meta tagged and UCS compliant, so you can find the right sounds you need and drag them straight into your projects. In addition, all the files are available in 24 Bit 192 kHz for further sonic manipulation and design (you can pitch and time stretch these to bring further interest and put your own stamp on to the effects).
The time and cost associated with recording loop groups and voice actors is high, so this library allows you to implement designed crowds and solo performances for a fraction of the cost.
Screaming Vol. 2 is a sequel to one of our most popular sound effect libraries to date. Unlike other libraries out there, we recorded small loop groups of voice actors covering situations where a single voice is not enough and a large crowd is too much for the scene. Furthermore, we captured extended performances in each file, giving sound editors the flexibility to use these effects in a large variety of situations. This collection contains group screams and shouts, covering everything from party and gig crowds all the way to battles and massacres making it a great addition for sound designers to their general audio collection and can be used in films, video games, TV productions and other projects.
Our Audio Craftsmen recorded performances of our in-house voice artists using mono and stereo microphones to give you maximum flexibility. We have captured various screams and shouts of a TV audience, crowds at parties, gigs, sports stadiums, armies fighting battles, teens being massacred, people burnt alive, a crowd being attacked by bees, a group falling to death, people being trampled by an elephant, couples fighting each other and much, much more. We have also included additional variations of long and short group screams and sequential screams.
All of the sounds are meticulously edited, meta tagged and UCS compliant, so you can find the right sounds you need and drag them straight into your projects. In addition, all the files are available in 24 Bit 192 kHz (without reverb) for further sonic manipulation and design (you can pitch and time stretch to create monster voices or high pitched creatures).
We have used a variety of male and female voices, capturing different variations of almost all types of group screams needed for your projects, which saves you from hiring expensive voice actors and loop groups.
This collaboration of the sound designers Bony Stoev and Saro Sahihi is the long awaited successor and main chapter of “Surrounding Horror – Prologue”.
It brings you a comprehensive collection of thrilling, abstract horror ambience sound effects in 5.1 surround.
Each soundscape was painstakingly handcrafted to 2:30 minute length with lots of frightening and terrifying sonic events.
It gives your horror-related production just the right amount of heart-stopping texture, leaving your audience with fear crawling up their spines to hold ’em tight.
Also available: the “ANGST | Surrounding Horror – Construction Kit” (or get the Bundle).
This collaboration of the sound designers Bony Stoev and Saro Sahihi is the long awaited successor and main chapter of “Surrounding Horror – Prologue”.
In this library you’ll find all sounds from the “Surrounding Horror Soundscapes” library downmixed to Stereo.
Each soundscape was painstakingly handcrafted to 2:30 minute length with lots of frightening and terrifying sonic events.
It gives your horror-related production just the right amount of heart-stopping texture, leaving your audience with fear crawling up their spines to hold ’em tight.
Also available: “ANGST | Surrounding Horror – Construction Kit” (or get the Bundle)
This library recorded a creepy, old, metallic, and huge storage door. It contains metal impacts, creepy metal squeaks, creeks and rattles. Use this SFX to create crazy sound design, especially for horror movies.
The library was recorded with:
Zoom F8 device, and Ntg3 Rode Mic
Multi Impacts is a package born from our previous Hits and Whoosh bundle. We have taken the decision to split the previous bundle to make two. Here's one of them!
Multi Impacts contains many impacts/hits sounds on several different surfaces. The library contains 258 sound files: Asphalt, Rubber, Car, Human, Ice, Metal, Water, Dirt, Plastic, Wood, and Sci-Fi Impacts.
The perfect package for add on another texture to your action!
Each sound has been meticulously edited individually, All files were recorded and are delivered in 24bit 96kHz Broadcast Wave files, all embedded with metadata information for easy import and ensure a fast and easy workflow.
100 Crescendo Sound Effects of Swarming Bees & Twisted Strings. Welcome to the Swarm.
HIVE STRINGS is a brutal hybrid sound pack that fuses the relentless buzz of real bee swarms with the chaotic rise of detuned string crescendos.
The result? A collection of 100 exclusive sound effects that feel alive, dangerous and on the verge of snapping.
Inside the Hive:
100 High-Quality, Royalty-Free WAV Files
Bee Crescendos – swarming, layered, unpredictable
Buzzing Strings – warped, dissonant, cinematic
Designed for layering or standalone impact
Useful for:
Horror & Thriller Trailers
Dark Sound Design Projects
Creepy Ambient Scores
Experimental Music & Audio Art
Game Audio – Monsters, Madness & Movement
Designed by Alessandro Romeo for HorrorSound, HIVE STRINGS is a fresh entry into the world of tension-based sound design. Raw. Unhinged. Not available anywhere else.
Step into the world of spine-chilling soundscapes with Cinematic Nightmares: Whooshes Vol.1—the perfect sound pack for creating tension and terror in your horror trailers and cinematic productions. Designed for producers who demand nothing but the best, this collection of dark and eerie whooshes is crafted from organic sources using premium microphones and recording equipment, ensuring the highest level of audio fidelity.
This pack offers a dual approach:
● Designed Section: Features 10 fully crafted whooshes, each provided in both wet and dry versions, giving a total of 20 cinematic sounds to drop straight into your project.
● Layers Section: Dive deeper with 30 individual layers, each also provided in wet and dry formats, for a total of 60 sounds. These layers are pre-processed for easy standalone use or to create custom whooshes (or anything else), providing unparalleled flexibility.
Each sound comes with 6 variations within a single file, plus wet and dry versions, allowing you to use them as-is, apply your own reverb, or completely reimagine them. This means you have endless creative possibilities at your fingertips.
With this pack, you’re not just getting great sound—you’re getting a treasure trove of audio assets:
● Designed Sounds: 120 wet and dry variations.
● Layered Sounds: 360 wet and dry variations.
● Bonus One-Shots: For a fast, seamless workflow, we’ve included one-shot versions, cut and ready to drag-and-drop into your DAW or sampler.
Check out the sound demo here:
All sounds are provided in 24-bit / 96kHz resolution with a total size of 3.2 GB, ensuring they meet the highest standards in the industry. Plus, every file includes comprehensive metadata and follows the Universal Category System (UCS), making it easier than ever to find and integrate the perfect sound for your project.
With extreme low-end depth and sonic clarity, BOOM features 130 boom sound effects spanning from abstract, resonant tones to signature, impactful hits, offering full coverage of the low-end spectrum.
The range spans from dark, obscure tones to low-end booms layered with signature sounds, degraded low-end textures and long tails of bass frequencies. All sounds are labeled with key information.
For cinematic projects and a variety of media where low-end sound is key, BOOM is a valuable addition to your sonic palette, delivering bold, atmospheric depth and precision to your audio.
Create dramatic tension, immersive environments and impactful sound design.
Introducing the Ultimate Horror Bundle: a spine-chilling collection that promises to immerse composers and filmmakers in the darkest depths of terror. This carefully curated package combines three of our most haunting and atmospheric sample libraries – Hades, Abandoned, and Hellscrape – to deliver an unparalleled arsenal of horror-themed sound effects that will send shivers down your spine.
HADES – Dark Trailer SFX: HADES was created with one thing in mind. DARK. This sample library covers your bases on all things dark and brooding, and is the perfect tool to break out for tracks that need that bit of tension in them. Some sounds lean into horror, while others remain more versatile. Drag and drop our samples into your track and you’ll quickly develop that dark edge to any production.
Includes cluster plucks, string blasts, scrapes, drags, Piano SFX, signature sounds, risers, dark vocals, and plenty more.
ABANDONED – Sound Design Ingredients: Horror: ABANDONED is our horror trailer music toolkit. Initially created and released by Grant Borland and Jake Dijak, we’ve decided to add it to the growing list of products here at ASTS, and even added new sounds to it – Courtesy of James F Brown III.
It features 13 categories: Bass FX, Breaks & Creaks, Cello Design, Creepers (Textures), Cigar Box Guitar, Downers, Drones, Hits, Designed Piano, Risers, Signature Sounds, Swells & Sweeps, and Ticks. A fully functional horror toolkit that is bound to make your tracks the scariest they’ve ever been!
HELLSCRAPE – Horrifying Sound Design: Hellscrape is our modern horror offering. Everything you need to create eerie tension sound beds and compelling horror tracks. Drag and drop our horror signature sounds and watch your music transform into a visceral cinematic experience.
Includes twisted signature sounds, unsettling drones, scary strings, brooding impacts, and more!
The Foley Vault is home to an ever-growing collection of original Foley recordings.
Each library was captured by professional Foley Artists on our in-house Foley Stage using a Sennheiser MKH50 microphone.
These sounds were originally performed for a variety of feature and short film projects. They have now been compiled and released for you to edit and implement into your own film, game and television productions.
An eerie collection of ambiences and room tones taken from the depths of an active morgue and its freezers.
Creaking Door is a simple library of expressive door creaks and heavy impactful door slams. We captured various squeals, creaks, wails and other crazy vocalizations from the door. The library is a great tool for adding character and weight to doors.
Haunting Ambiences Bundle Vol. 2 includes three more libraries from our series of horror-genre atmospheres: Haunting Ambiences Vol. 4, 5 & 6.
The bundle comprises 19.99 GB worth of sounds recorded and designed by our Audio Craftsmen. Each of the 18 featured ambiences have been separated into individual stems, providing you with multi-layered kits for constructing your own horror backgrounds. Bangs on doors, swamp creature screeches, sewer screams, rattling chains, sacrificial chanting and many more can be endlessly mixed and matched in this customizable collection.
Use this bundle to experiment with layering, tone, and other sonic parameters when building atmosphere in your horror scenes. Sounds can be used for both digital and real-life projects, including Film, TV and Game productions, and live horror events and escape rooms.
The entire bundle is delivered at 24Bit 192kHz and tagged with extensive Metadata for ease of use.
Female Screams to enhance your projects, whether game or film!
Agonising screams, Fearful shrieks and aggressive battle cries
All Recorded in 24/192khz so they can be easily manipulated if needed
A collection of RAW gritty metallic impacts, debris, movements and one shot recordings. Ideal for foley, and for sound designers and cinematic composers who wish to experiment with metallic sounds. Can also be used to design Horror UI sounds or metallic monsters in game audio.
WAV + MP3 files. UCS Compatible
“Conduct Disorder” is a collection of 215 intense sounds.
Thanks to the distorted and heavy feel of the pack this sounds effects are suitable for horror and sci-fi productions. If your project needs an “in your face” approach this library is perfect for you.
You will find: Alarms, pings, atmospheric elements, hits, noises, energy bursts, stutters and cinematic movements.
Get “Conduct Disorder” and grab people’s attention to provoke fear and tension in them.
‘Mountain Dweller – Orc Sound Effects’ from Bluezone Corporation is a collection of 184 carefully designed fantasy sound effects. Built around the theme of orcs and goblins, this original and massive sound library contains a wide selection of sounds from legendary creatures but also their universes.
Perfect for all kinds of fantasy movie and video game projects, this pack contains a wide variety of designed intimidating orc sounds like grunts and crunches, various types of footsteps to quickly build slow or fast step sequences, as well as sounds of attacks, violent blows and aggressive combat.
Unlock a whole universe of possible scenarios: A horde of goblins living in the mountains, building wooden bridges, digging with shovels and picks in underground mines, blowing up stone walls. Trolls cutting wood with their axes in the forest or wading in the mud. All these sounds are intuitive and ready to use, or can be edited to create your world. The background ambience in the demo is not part of the product but is added free of charge.
‘Mountain Dweller – Orc Sound Effects’ is the perfect source of inspiration to create movies such as ‘The Lord of the Rings’ and video games like Dungeons & Dragons, Warhammer, Warcraft and more.
Another exciting game character voice sound library has arrived. Hello and welcome – AAA Game Character Undead – a riveting collection of interactive, in-game dialogue featuring a grotesque set of fantasy undead creature audio assets. Inside you’ll find over 400+ rich and immersive in-game character audio files, provided in high quality 24bit 96k .wav file format.
Library highlights:
Do you want to add a bit of mystery, depth, tension to your ambience stem and influence the emotional state of the listener?
Insectus is a special Ambisonics sfx library: we’ve been through lot of experimentation in that time with different approaches regarding the best way to deliver this bizarre package of sounds.
So what is it exactly? Just think about the sound-designed material as a background sweetener. We’ve called it Insectus not only for its Latin roots, but also because it comes from the fusion of two word: Insect+Tinnitus.
We used the higher octave of the spectrum in an odd way, mimicking insect vocalization and biophony sounds in Symbolic Sound Kyma by layering a lot of synthesised stream of small band of very high frequencies (hence the inspireful source name Tinnitus).
Now you can create soundscape by layering, rotating, expanding and shrinking the FuMa/ambiX file. You can also re-construct the 360° sound panorama from binaural up to 7.1 surround.
You’ll find 100 loopable variations of FOA FuMa/ambiX interleaved files (4 channels), with a duration of 30 seconds each.
Friction Mallet_Pack 01 is a pack of friction and impact recordings using a Unlimited Soundpoet Silicone Rubber Friction Mallet against a Long Cardboard Box. Recorded with microphones directly pointing inside the opening of the 58 inch x 12 inch x 7 inch box. The long box size gives us a wide range of recording times, from less 1 second, to around 15 seconds!
Using this Egg Shaped Friction Mallet gets you a fun combination of Groans, Tonal Rumbles, Vibrates, Impact, Bounces, Tight and Loose Slides, Swipes, and wild Pitch Bends.
Packed in at 3.9GB, 838 single triggered sounds totaling around 40 minutes to use as a creature, sound design, vehicle layer or any other layer you can think of! (Or maybe farts?)
These sound files were recorded at 32bit, 192kHz using the Sennheiser MKH8050, Sennheiser MKH30 and Sanken CO-100K microphones into a Sound Devices Mix Pre-10ii.
All are metadata tagged using the Universal Category System in Soundminer, and also searchable in Soundly, and Basehead.
Own the entire Studio Obsidian library, over 18 hours and 10,000 sounds recorded and sculpted by sound designer Nathan Moody. This bundle includes:
ANALOGUE ORDNANCE: Science Fiction Weapon Construction Kit
MICROMECH: Small Mechanism Manipulation
SHIPSCAPE: Shipboard Ambiences
METALMOTION: Moving Metallic Textures
ULTRASQUISH: Unique Ultrasonic Gore
AEOLUS: Dark Wind Textures
METALLITRONIC: Vibrating Metal Textures
SIGIL: Dark Electro-Acoustic Textures
If you want to terrify your audience - whether it's for a game, movie or another project that calls for bone-chilling sounds - the horror sound effects libraries from the independent sound community are a fantastic tool for making that happen.
They give you everything from haunting ghost sounds, gruesome and gory sound effects and demonic possessions, to frightening and disturbing ambiences, screams, whispers and grotesque zombie sounds - making sure your audience will get a sonic experience that's sure to leave a mark.
Bones breaking, breathing, chains rattling, creaking doors, demonic laughter, footsteps, ghostly whispers, gore splatter, heartbeats, knife slash, monster roar, music box, screams, screeching violins, siren, stabbing, thunder, water dripping, wind howling, zombie groan
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Q: Are these sounds royalty free?
A: Yes, they're royalty free, and no attribution is required
Q: Who has recorded and designed these sounds?
A: They're created by the independent sound community, and have been recorded by some of the best recordists and sound designers on the planet. There's a constant flow of brand new sound libraries coming from the community, giving you the absolutely freshest sound effects available anywhere. Oh, and by getting sounds from the community, you support individual sound designers and sound recordists – that’s a pretty cool thing too.
Expand the timbre of your horror violins and cellos with CIRCUS, a sinister sample pack featuring 180 WAV sounds of screeching or high-pitched string noises, perfect for horror music and dark sound design.
This collection offers a curated selection of screeches, high-tension tremolo, heavy jeté strokes, dark demonic textures, finger patterns, chaotic string elements, clock loops and bow accents.
Create haunting atmospheres, perfect for horror, thriller or experimental soundtracks. Every element has been designed to unsettle and disturb, blurring the line between music and noise.
The asset list includes but is not limited to: hippos, hyenas, vultures, dwarf mongooses, elephants, African cranes, parrots, tigers, pigmy hippos, rhea ostriches, brown bears, pheasants, wildebeests, African wild dogs and many more. The content has been recorded at 192KHz with a Sanken CO100K, an Avisoft CMPA and a Sennheiser 8050 for center plus two Sennheiser MKH8040 for stereo image.
The resulting ultrasonic spectrum is rich and allows for truly extreme manipulation of the content.
Unleash the raw power of fire, water, earth, and air with this comprehensive 9 GB sound library featuring 3050 high-quality sound effects across 630 files. Whether you’re designing cinematic soundscapes or enhancing video games Four Elements delivers the tools you need to harness the energy of the natural world.
A treasure trove of raw, organic, and processed sounds including seamless loops divided into Fire, Water, Air, Earth and Explosion categories. Customize every detail with an extensive selection of sound components.
Game-ready sound layers featuring Impacts, Whooshes, and Textures as seamless loops. Elevate transitions and enhance atmospheres with loops and pre-designed sound layers.
A collection of ready-to-use sound effects divided into Attack, Bend, and Explosion categories for quick integration into your projects. Perfect for high-energy scenes and immersive storytelling.
Four Elements gives you complete creative control, blending organic recordings with processed sound layers to meet the demands of any project. Master the forces of nature with Four Elements. Let your creativity ignite.
Keywords:
Elements, Fire, Water, Earth, Air, Wave, Water, Liquid, Rock, Cast, Stone, Pebble, Torch, Gas, Flame, Campfire, Sizzle, Burst, Scrape, Whoosh, Impact, Texture, Attack, Bend, Bending, Explosion, Processed, Surge, Quake, Hit, Flow, Burn, Ignite, Drop, Smack, Destruction, Rumble, Hiss, Blow, Wind, Cloth, Movement, Underwater, Bubble, Ocean, River, Lake, Firework, Firecracker, Bang, Blast, Detonation, Magic, Fantasy, Forces, Fire Magic, Water Magic, Earth Magic, Fire Air, Fire Effect, Fire Whoosh, Water Whoosh, Seamless Loop, Loop, Fire Cast, Water Cast, Earth Cast, Air Cast
Hyper Thunder is a colossal collection of thunder and lightning, 100% crafted from the ground up using innovative synthesized technics and props recordings. Not a single real life thunder recording was used. using synthesis and props manipulation crafted to deliver impact far beyond natural recordings. Built entirely from innovative synthesis and props recordings, this library pushes the boundaries of weather sound design—perfect for when you need the raw energy of a storm dialed up to cinematic extremes.
Featuring over 800 files, Hyper Thunder spans everything from subtle distant rumbles and rolling thunder to razor-sharp lightning strikes and earth-shaking impacts. With both designed hits and source layers, you have full control—drop in ready-to-use power or sculpt your own stormscapes using the source recordings.
Created in collaboration with Bruits.Studio’s Vincent Fliniaux and Tibo Csuko—longtime SoundMorph contributors to acclaimed libraries like Robotic Lifeforms 2 and WATER— Hyper Thunder blends technical mastery with bold creativity.
From atmospheric detail to explosive drama, Hyper Thunder gives you thunder and lightning that are bigger, subtler, and more versatile than nature itself.
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