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Scary, creepy, nasty horror sound effects and gore sounds
READY-TO-USE SOUNDS FOR INSTANT AWESOMENESS
You’re under deadline pressure and don’t have time to start creating your own sounds from scratch but you don’t want to lower your standards? The CINEMATIC DARKNESS DESIGNED is your creative go-to-collection if you want to pick from a full collection of evil madness.
EACH SOUND A SINISTER MASTERPIECE
CINEMATIC DARKNESS is destined to be the key library for your next dark movie, trailer or game project. It keeps ready mad noise terror, evil screams, weird glitches and much more gloom in an instant. The name says it all: these sounds come to you as pre-designed, “ready-to-use” tools. We created an impressive set of frightening and murky SFX with booms, deep hits, digital glitches, scary drones, science stutters, tension builders and much more.
SampleTraxx is proud to introduce “DEADBOW,” the newest addition to our organic sound effects series. DEADBOW is a premium sound collection entirely created from raw, live string recordings by sound designer Alessandro Romeo for SampleTraxx.
Featuring 400+ premium WAV sounds from smooth and delicate to aggressive and extreme string mutation including bowed cello hard and soft, cello and violin phrases and reverse, crescendos, tick tocks, designed violin stutters, screeches, plucks, jetèz and a raw source folder with files at 96/24 resolution, for an ultra realistic yet mangled horror strings collection.
The Kontakt instruments featured in DEADBOW turn into a powerful sound design instrument with a straightforward, easy-to-use engine, including 27 Instruments and 10 Multis to combine and create unique horror sound design elements in seconds, from classic sounds to abrasive and gritty sonic signature.
SECLUSION is an intense collection of signature Braams and Atmospheric elements for Dystopian and Horror productions. 140 files (24 Bit / 48 kHz, WAV) of pure sonic angst!
If you are a trailer composer the Braams included in the library will inject energy and tension in your track grabbing people’s attention. But if you are an editor or sound designer the Atmospheric elements will set the right tense mood for your scene thanks to the terrifying nature of the sounds.
Features:
-140 Sound effects (73 Atmospheric elements, 67 Braams)
-24 Bit / 48 kHz, WAV
-1,2 GB
-Key information
-Universal Category System (UCS) compliant
Supernatural Ghosts provides the sounds of spirits in multiple variations, allowing you to construct entire horror scenes and suggest ghostly presence. To bring you this horrifying library, we recorded and designed human voices, abstract instruments such as the waterphone, thunder tube, harmonica all in 24Bit 96kHz allowing for further manipulation.
All of the human voices are provided with dry variations to enable you to apply your own effects to taste.
Here are the included folders:
Ghostly Breaths: This folder consists of male and female inhales, exhales and angry breaths all with a cold and ghostly performance.
Ghostly Voices: A collection of phrases by male and female ghosts, perfect for giving a voice to a supernatural being within your scene.
Ghostly Presence: This category contains haunting ambiances, sure to leave your audience with their neck hairs standing up.
Production Elements: piercing risers, booming cinematic impacts, ultrasonic and infrasonic sounds, perfect for accenting your most gruesome moments.
The day of reckoning is here! Inspired by Hollywood box office hits like Mad Max and The Book of Eli, we present to you “Post Apocalyptic Trailer” – Epic Stock Media’s newest hard-hitting, bass-rumbling designed movie trailer sound effects collection. Includes over 500+ stingers, big hits, impacts, drones, Shepard tones & more. All of the recordings are delivered in 96kHz/24bit, giving you the best quality for heavy sound editing, pitch shifting, and fx processing while keeping a top notch level of clarity and precision.
Library highlights:
Need to create suspense, tension and mystery in your production? “UNSOLVED” is great for you.
Inspired by crime/investigation movies and series, this pack contains 141 Sound Effects (Wav, 24 Bit / 96 kHz) aimed to enhance the tension and drama of movies, games, series and trailers.
You will find atmospheric and musical elements with a powerful cinematic feel that can be used in musical context too, making this library a great addition to your collection.
Bo Ho – Kontakt Edition, is a new library of weird and wonderful sounds created from a cymbal being played with a violin bow. It consists of 52 clean recordings in WAV format, plus 8 manipulated, effected versions of some of the files, also in WAV format.
In addition to this, there are 15 Kontakt Instruments made up of different effects to all 60 WAV files, mapped to 60 keys on the keyboard, creating 900 individual sounds / drones / underscores when played with the full Kontakt Player (5.6.8 or above).
The sounds range from the haunting and the subtle, to the distorted ear bleeder and everything in between. The WAV files can be used on their own, or manipulated in any way. The Kontakt Instruments are all unlocked and fully editable, making the possibilities of different versions of the files infinite.
This library is a must for theatre / film / TV sound designers and for sound artists or for anyone who appreciates and uses strange sounds for any project.
Please note that the Kontakt instruments will only play on the full, latest version (5.6.8 or above).
33 files • 96 kHz/32 Bit • 1.06Go • 21:29 mins
Civil Alarm is a sound effects package with many perspectives of a siren running. Mechanical turbine blow the sound in the air and to make ambience feel uncomfortable to enhance your catastrophe events into your projects.
Vintage alarm, Air raid, apocalyptic call, disaster signal. All you need to make a stressful and worrying atmosphere to your productions!
Each sound has been recorded with high-quality equipment and meticulously edited individually.
All files were recorded and are delivered in Broadcast Wave files, all embedded with metadata information for easy import and ensure fast and easy workflow.
Respecting all complaints from the UCS system.
Drowning is a Sound Effects Library By Decal Audio Containing over 45 different Male drowning sounds, from coughs, splutters, gags and gasps plus hydrophone underwater scream sounds. This set of sounds should provide all you need for any scenario’s of an adult male drowning, with submerged bubbling, pants and gasps struggling keeping afloat and huge emerging breaths.
No one was harmed during the recording of this library – just some concerned neighbours!
Mono audio files recorded at 96kHz/24 bit with a Rode NTG-3, JRF Hydrophone and Sound Devices MixPre-6 recorder.
Hospital Ambiance is 59 minutes/1.80 Gb of ambiance recordings from an old hospital. 24 separate files – recorded in 24bit/96kHz A-B stereo. All sounds are UCS-compatible.
Hospital Ambiance was recorded in the rooms and corridors of the old (now defunct) Aarhus County Hospital in Aarhus, Denmark. A prominent feature is the lack of acoustical treatment in corridors and hallways, giving a rather hard and reverberant sound, which is typical of Danish public building styles of the 1930’s and 40’s.
Elevators and automatic doors are heavy and noisy; humming and clanking as patients and staff pass through them. Electric vehicles used to move patients and supplies around inside the complex are old and not exactly noiseless either. Finally, while I did not have access to operating rooms or the like, I did get into a couple of basement corridors, where there were less people and more Hvac noise (yay!).
In some of the recordings, faint, muffled or smeared voices can be heard. While I have removed passages with distinctly Danish words (which might also be connected with specific, recognizable persons), there is still a certain tone and pitch to the Danish language, which may come through on occasion.
All in all, this is the sound of a place that is no more, as this old hospital is being turned into expensive apartments or something to that effect.
The moving inner sounds of an industrial cooling system at the back of a small factory in Iceland was recorded with a LOM Geofón into a Sound Devices Mix Pre 3II
Canadian sound designer Alex Lane has crafted these recordings into dark, ambient drone loops – perfect for adding dissonant, tense and disturbing vibes to your film, game or song.
All sounds are normalised, tagged with UCS compliant metadata in Soundminer.
Total pack content:
30 x 3 minute designed looped files at 96k/24 bit
18 source files of varying lengths (also looped) at 192k/24 bit
NB: some of the designed file content in the YouTube video is listed as 44.1 k sample rate – this applies to Unreal Engine and Unity asset uploads only.
Haunting Ambiences Bundle includes three of our fastest selling Horror Sound Effects Libraries to date. With a total size of 29.5 GB and 236+ files (690 mins approx.), this product includes 39 dense, multi-layered construction kits, everything you need to build a world around your horror scenes with separated stems.
The team in collaboration with Georgi Valchev from West Wolf Audio captured creepy ambiences and sounds from different countries across Eastern Europe, various vocalisations, instruments and synthesizers. We even recorded sounds from the cellblock where a couple of notorious killers (The Moors Murderers) were held at The Old Courthouse, Manchester.
Our Audio Craftsman meticulously edited the sounds and designed them to make menacing shipyards, abandoned mansions, forgotten forests, mental asylums, gas chambers, underground prisons, experimental labs, haunted sewers, haunted houses, zombie apocalypse and much, much more.
These dense ambiences include split stems with the same running length to encourage experimentation, allowing you to add or subtract certain elements, balance them or combine them with sounds from other construction kits in the pack. In addition all of the files are tagged with extensive metadata to integrate seamlessly with your workflow.
You will be more than 15% of the total cost of the individual libraries when purchasing this bundle, an excellent value for money addition to your films, documentaries, video games, escape room/live experiences and other horror/sci-fi projects.
Included libraries:
Haunting Ambiences Vol.1
Haunting Ambiences Vol.2
Haunting Ambiences Vol.3
Dark Game Spell Incantation Voices brings producers and sound designers a versatile and wide-ranging selection of over 160+ fantasy game-styled magic voices, spiritual vocal spells, & enchanting game sound effects. This designed magic voice spell sound effects library features a male shaman game character inspired by legendary games such as Dark Souls, Skyrim, & Blood-Borne.
Bowed Cymbal 2 HD is a collection of 102 bowed cymbal samples using a broken and cut up cymbal, which gives some insane tonalities.
Bowed Cymbal is a collection of 100 bowed cymbal samples using broken cymbals, which gives some very unique tonalities. Also included are 4 sequences designed in 5.1 surround to help spark your creative juices.
Twisted Zither features recordings of an old zither being plucked, scraped, hit, and shaken. The library includes string hits, wood hits, tones, and different resonant sounds using a number of props such as mallets, african shakers, keys, coins, a metal beam, and fingers.
If you're looking for organic, wooden – and eerie – sounds, this one's not to be missed.
Recorded over an entire year, Ultrasonic Insects Volume 2 contains dozens of new insect songs recorded with love, precision and a lot of patience! More than 3 000 kilometers were traveled to get to 12 beautiful french sites sheltering common and endemic species. All insects were recorded in quiet environments with close-miking for unparalleled quality.
Want to get brand new sound material from nature? Listen to the songs of those tiny creatures, pitch them as much as you want and find inspiration for your next sound design.
• 22 species of grasshoppers, crickets, bush-crickets and cicadas
• Rare death’s head hawk-moth vocalisations
• 5 species of flying insects
• Solo insects recorded with Sanken CO-100K
• 8 bonus stereo ambiances recorded with MKH 8040
• 192 KHz/24 bit
• Metadata UCS-compliant
• Each species is identified with scientific name, common name and picture
• No insects were harmed while recording this library (except a few mosquitos!)
Inject life into your MONSTER OCTOPUS, SNAKE, SLUG or any other MOLLUSK/TENTACLE creature with this gigantic pack of realistic, royalty-free, high-quality creature voice overs, foley and just about every other sound you’ll ever need! Some of the included sounds are: ATTACK, IDLE SOUNDS, WARNING ROARS, HURT AND DIE SCREAMS, BODY & MOVEMENT SOUNDS … and many more, all in 3 creature sizes – SMALL, MEDIUM, LARGE!
[If you need even broader variety of mollusk sounds and sound effects of all other monster species, be sure to get our Complete Creatures pack here instead!]
INCREDIBLE FLEXIBILITY AND EASE-OF-USE
Each audio file is drag-and-drop ready, presented in high-quality MP3 and WAV formats, including many in multiple takes, edits (long, short, fast, slow, looping), with meticulously labeled keywords, so you can create the perfect experience for your players/audience in a matter of moments! Enrich your title in seconds with beautifully mixed, AAA quality sounds brought to you by our team of industry veterans, whose 1,000+ games worth of experience have culminated in this extraordinary pack of sounds.
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“Upright” is a collection of 337 vertical piano sound effects (24 Bit / 96 kHz, WAV) suited for horror productions.
You will find:
-Atmospheric elements: Creepy and eerie atmospheres to induce fear and tension.
-Hits: Direct and complex impacts created with the philosophy of “The Prepared Piano” in mind. You will get strong and atmospheric ones.
-Loops: Rhythmic loops at 75 bpm. You will find clocks, cinematic musical notes and strong cinematic percussive hits.
-Movements and transitions: Friction movements created using mallets and nails over the strings. Crazy granular key movements and transitions.
-Raw elements: Cool elements to create clocks and simple movements.
-Textures: Musical elements and creepy distorted textures.
If you are a musician who wants to define the building blocks of an intense horror track or maybe you are a sound designer who needs to create a musical moment in a scene from a sound design perspective, this library can help you to achieve those things.
Get “Upright” and get that horror feeling you are looking for.
CHECK THE DEMO. It was created using ONLY the sounds of the library!
The “Abstract Ambiences” is a collaboration of SoundBits and Monte Sound.
This Library brings you the construction kit of the “Abstract Ambiences” Sound Effects Library to mix and match its stems as you wish, giving you maximum flexibility in post production.
Think of movies like “Alien”, “Event Horizon” “or games like “Dead Space”, “Doom” or “Bioshock”. But you will also get the right feel and idea for other disturbing-cyberpunk and unsettling industrial dark spaces.
A symbiosis of organic original field-recordings like Room Tones, Construction Sites, Traffic, Fun-Fair, Motors, … and synthetic elements like spectral- and granular synthesis.
This bundle contains four of my most Crime/Investigation focused libraries.
You will get a nice collection of atmospheric elements, fx and musical loops ready to enhance the mood of your project and create mystery and tension.
If you are a musician who wants to define the building blocks of a track or maybe you are a sound designer who needs to create a musical moment from a sound design perspective, this bundle can help you to achieve those things.
Packs included:
Unsolved: 141 Sound Effects (Wav, 24 Bit / 96 kHz) aimed to enhance tension. You will find atmospheric and musical elements with a powerful cinematic feel.
Infiltration: 161 sound effects (Wav, 24 Bit / 96 kHz) aimed to be used in modern espionage/infiltration productions. From intense low frequency atmospheric elements to powerful synth movements this library can be see it as a powerful kit to create a modern espionage feel in your project .
The Case: 185 sounds (Wav, 24 Bit / 48 kHz) aimed to enhance the tension and drama of movies, games, series, trailers and musical compositions. You will find deep Bass Loops, powerful Percussive Loops (kick, hi-hat, hits, metal), Cinematic Melodies and notes (synth, clean electric guitar, percussive piano) and Fx (soundscapes, atmospheric elements, drops, hits and impacts).
Retrace: 96 strong sound elements (Wav, 24 Bit / 48 kHz) aimed to create suspense, tension and action. You will find a nice mixture of sound effects, looped percussive elements and looped cinematic musical instruments.
This bundle includes our popular Metal source material library and ALL future derived sound design libraries from Metal Hits, Scrapes & Squeaks. The first derived library is Metal Souls.
The Metal Forge ensemble included is a simplified version of our Forge ensemble. It comes pre-loaded with various Metal samples for the ability to quickly create new sounds from the provided material.
Metal Souls
I spent a great deal of time exploring pitch manipulation with this library. Much of it relied on rendered processing to acquire the aesthetic that I wanted. My vision was to make something ethereal and vocal but also a bit vague.
Metal Hits, Scrapes & Squeaks
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.
Thriller Whooshes sound library brings you 200 tension-building transition sound effects perfect for horror, thriller and action movies, trailers, games, music, and more! In contrast to Sound Response’s first installment of whoosh sound effects Whooshes & Transitions that features predominantly sci-fi whoosh sound effects, Thriller Whooshes soundpack contains transition sound effects designed using exclusively organic source sounds recorded with high-end recorders and microphones, in order for effects to be more raw-sounding.
A must have for anyone looking for sinister-sounding transition sounds, these sound effects will instantly find a way into your production and help you with intensifying the atmosphere of your project!
Thriller Whooshes sound library contains 547MB (200 sound effects) of high definition 24bit/96khz Stereo WAV files, embedded with metadata to speed up your workflow.
If you like the sound of Thriller Whooshes sound library then be sure to check out Sci-Fi Whooshes and also the latest release from Sound Response – Thriller Risers for even more high quality whooshes, transitions, and intense cinematic risers & build-up sound effects!
Sinister Impacts & Transitions sound library features 200+ tension-building, dark cinematic horror impacts and whoosh sound effects for music production, movies, trailers, games, tv, and more!
Whether you need intense and disturbing hits and transition sound effects for music production, or you’re looking for creepy and unsettling horror impacts, slams, strikes and whooshes sound effects to enhance the feeling of anticipation and suspense in a video game, trailer or horror movie, this sinister-sounding, cutting edge SFX collection will provide you with the right sonic tool to keep your audience on the edge of their seats!
Sinister Impacts & Transitions sound library contains 832MB (241 sound effects) of high definition 24bit/96khz Stereo WAV files, embedded with metadata to speed up your workflow.
If you like the sound of Sinister sound library then be sure to check out much anticipated second installment Sinister 2 and also the latest release from Sound Response – Thriller Risers for even more creepy horror hits, strikes, scary transitions, whooshes & build-up sound effects!
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
Q: What are some of the most popular horror sounds?
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Q: How do I download the horror sounds?
A: Add the sound libraries you're interested in to the cart, and complete the checkout - you can then instantly download your chosen horror SFX.
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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