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Scary, creepy, nasty horror sound effects and gore sounds
This horrific sound pack contains 500 sounds, all based on the terrifying shriek of the Aztec Death Whistle. There are an array of designed sounds that can be dropped into any production. This versatile pack contains designed, reverb textures, ghostly reverses, terrifying shrieks, wheezing groans and screams as well as articulations from the Death Whistle itself.
The original dry recordings are also included, so you now can mangle even them further to your black heart’s desire.
All recordings were made using a Sennheiser MKH 80 50, Sound Devices and lightly mastered with Izotope RX9.
All files are meta-tagged (Soundminer) and labelled.
Step into a world where phantoms roam the night, sorcerers conjure black magic, and supernatural creatures come to life. With Witchcraft, experience the mesmerizing power of dark magic in stunning 96k/24bit sound. Feel the enchantment and let your imagination soar!
Witchcraft is the culmination of months of meticulous stage and field recording using high-end equipment, followed by an intricate sound design process. Whether you need magical spells, bursts, whooshes, or cast sound effects, Witchcraft has you covered. From massive fireballs, flames, and evil spirits to holy light, water, wind, powerful electric bursts, forest spells, and summons, NI Sound Witchcraft gives you the ultimate edge.
Key Features:
High-Quality Sound: Immerse yourself in the highest quality 96k/24bit audio.
Diverse Magical Effects: A wide range of sound effects including spells, bursts, whooshes, and more.
Easy to Use: Simply drag and drop into your project to create an epic soundscape.
Professional Recording: Created with high-end recorders and microphones for unparalleled sound quality.
Made with supernatural powers in sound design, Witchcraft brings you peak levels of mesmerizing magic for your next project. Unleash the power of dark magic and make your creations truly epic!
A complete collection of sonic exploration by Slava Pogorelsky.
Grow your sound arsenal with an ever evolving collection of high-end cinematic and fresh sound effects!
Here’s what to expect:
WHAT SOUND PROFESSIONALS SAY:
Philip Eriksson – Audio Director (It Takes Two, Battlefield V, Star Wars: Battlefront I & II)
“Slava has some pretty kick ass sound libraries!”
Victor Mercader – AAA Sound Designer (Apex Legends)
“I find myself continuously using Slava’s SFX libraries to blend it’s pristine and detailed sound designs into my own sounds. They always add that cutting edge I am missing and make my sound designs more unique and pristine. The Sci-fi Elements sound library is the perfect library to use and blend into my UI designs in Apex Legends.”
Enos Desjardins – Sound Designer/Sound Effects Editor (Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, Black Mirror)
“Slava has been creating some really cool libraries which I find myself using time and again. Really high quality recordings to start with but then the cool processing he has used for example in his cinematic whoosh libraries really stand out. They are not just your standard generic whoosh sounds but are loaded with character and have a unique feel to them that is really fresh and cuts through in the nicest of ways.”
Bjørn Jacobsen – AAA Sound Designer (CyberPunk 2077, HITMAN, DARQ)
“Slava has for several years made high quality sound effects for me to play with. I use his sound libraries across multiple projects as lego blocks of my creations.”
Stefan Kovatchev – Audio Director (MultiVersus)
“Slava has put together an impressive collection of high quality source assets, recorded cleanly, and at high sample rates. It’s always refreshing to find a new purveyor of good source material. I particularly enjoyed Resonating Metal Force, which is comprised of very useable, unique tonal textures and impacts.”
Shane Tetro – AAA Sound Designer (Remnant II)
“Slava’s libraries feature high-quality, adaptable recordings and designs. There is plenty to dig through in every pack, making each library extremely dynamic for various applications. Their exceptional textures have significantly enhanced my workflow; consider me a fan!”
Samuel Gagnon-Thibodeau – Sound Designer/Sound Effects Editor (Dream Scenario, The Watchers, Hunting Daze)
“Slava’s Cinematic Wood Symphony detailed textures and movements blend so well in what I’m usually looking for in terms of sound design. It really brings proximity and sensitivity to the action while feeling real and natural. The creative blend of the wooden sounds with whooshes and impacts also makes them very unique. I’m finding myself coming back to them more and more as they fit in many situations.”
Yarron Katz – AAA Composer and Sound Designer
“Slava makes some wonderful libraries. He’s relatively new on the scene and his libraries have come to critical acclaim. He takes some general ideas, like whooshes and he injects some extremely revolutionary and innovative ideas to them, so you’re not getting another whoosh library – you’re getting something very unique, very fresh. He brings some wonderful ideas to the table.”
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.
Unearthly Designed Risers!
Recorded using a surprisingly wobbly Metal Sheet!
Ethereal sounds perfect for Sci-Fi and Horror projects OR for Cinematic Trailers!
Recorded and exported in 24/192Khz
Phantasmal Ambiences Vol. 3 is the third in a series of nightmarish ambiences made to unnerve you and your audiences.
In this edition, we have included both perspective and close miked recordings from our large array of props captured here at our studio. These sounds were then edited, wildly manipulated and layered to create chilling tones and soundscapes, perfect for giving your audience a fright!
Maximum sonic clarity has been maintained and further enhanced with each of these sounds so they can be dropped directly into your project timeline and get down to work with minimal fuss.
All sounds are delivered in 24Bit 96kHz format allowing further manipulation and have been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.
Entrancing Cinematic Risers!
Recorded using a hydrophone, a bucket of water and various metals, including a triangle, a metal tube and a tray!
Ethereal sounds perfect for Sci-Fi and Horror projects OR for Cinematic Trailers!
Recorded and exported in 24/192Khz
A heap of Blood, Guts and Gore that’ll make any project sickening (in a good way!)
Including:
All recorded and exported in 24/192khz
The Ultimate Horror SFX Bundle brings you our top selling Monsters, Jump Scares, Screams and much more. Fill your next horror scene with over 7.8GB of quality recordings. Whether it’s a scary track or a scene in a film, this bundle will provide everything you need to shock your audience.
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.
INCLUDED LIBRARIES:
Zombie Specimines Vol. 1
Zombie Specimines Vol. 2
Monster Movement
Supernatural Ghosts
Torture Chamber
Jump Scares
Flesh, Bones & Gore
Screaming Vol. 1
Screaming Vol. 2
Screaming Designed
Sacrificial Chants
The Ultimate Horror Ambience bundle brings you the very best products we have to date to perfectly set your horror scene. Inspire fear in your audience with our fantastic range of ambience. Everything from Haunting Ambience to Cymbals from Hell to Ghostly presences will provide the perfect background layering to set up your next horror project.
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.
Included Libraries:
Haunting Ambiences Vol. 1
Haunting Ambiences Vol. 2
Haunting Ambiences Vol. 3
Cymbals from Hell Vol. 1
Cymbals from Hell Vol. 2
Cymbals from Hell Vol. 3
Ghostly Presences
Phantasmal Ambiences Vol. 1
Phantasmal Ambiences Vol. 2
Phantasmal Ambiences Vol. 2 is the second in a series of nightmarish ambiences made to unnerve you and your audiences.
Perspective recordings of assorted props and instruments were captured in the 344 Audio headquarters and a beautifully reverberant Nottingham church. These sounds were then carefully edited, manipulated and layered to form haunting scenes for use in all your horrific creations.
Inject terror and dread into your film, TV and video game projects with this Pandora’s box of evil-doers and malevolent forces – all localised in the near distance of various other-worldly spaces.
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 96kHz format allowing further sonic manipulation and have been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.
Phantasmal Ambiences Vol. 1 is the first in a series of spine-tingling, hair-raising ambiences sure to unsettle your audiences and users.
Perspective recordings of assorted props and instruments were captured in the 344 Audio headquarters and a beautifully reverberant Nottingham church. These sounds were then carefully edited, manipulated and layered to form haunting scenes for use in all your horrific creations.
Spookify your film, TV and video game projects with poltergeists, demons, aliens and deranged beings – all localised in the near distance of various other-worldly spaces.
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 96kHz format allowing further sonic manipulation and have been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.
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.
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.
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.
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
Akelarre is a sound library inspired by folk and cosmic horror stories that provides a unique palette of cinematic dark soundscapes and sound effects. These wicked designed sounds are divided into categories such as scary creatures and monsters, eerie strings, mysterious drones, dark soundscapes and otherworldly SFX.
Most of the sound sources are field recording based and they have been designed through granular synthesis, convolution and plate reverbs, and other effects. The uncommon sounds that compose Akelarre offer an original sound library to use on your compositions and productions for film, games, music and anything in between.
All files contain extensive metadata following UCS (Universal Category System) with file description and keywords to help you quickly find the sounds. Metadata can be read and processed by the most common audio management tools. Compatibility with Windows + Mac. All files are .wav and compatible with all the main DAWs and video editing software.
Includes
• Scary Monsters/Creatures
• Uncanny Roars
• Creepy Spells
• Dark Ambiences
• Eerie Strings
• Crispy Metallic SFX
• Metallic Smashes
• Eerie Drones
• Spooky Birds
• Ice
• Wind
Created and Manufactured by Ana Quiroga
Ever been stuck alone in an old creepy elevator?
Well now you can relive that experience, with this sound pack!
Including;
Movement of a service elevator
Flickering lights
Pressing lift buttons (with and without lift movement)
Opening and closing of heavy doors
Recorded and exported in 24/48khz
Suitable for and horror based projects (Game or film)
Male 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
Fancy a Laugh?
Whether you need maniacal laughter for your horror project, or friendly chuckles for your comedy. This pack has what you’ll need!
Including
Calm laughter
Evil gravelly and deep laughter
Insane cackling
Or even maniacal giggling
All recorded and exported in 24/192khz so can be easily distorted and manipulated to suite your needs.
Dive into massive emotional force and create an unbelievably sincere and expressive raw feeling.
Welcome to PLATFORM, a versatile and easy-to-use sample library and Kontakt Instrument with a huge variety of impressive modern-sounding and a futuristic//cyberpunk vibe a lot of character and personality.
This is a collaboration between sonic mastermind Robert Dudzic and SampleTraxx.
Designed with both acoustic and synth sources PLATFORM is aimed primarily for writing sound design tracks, score and cinematic projects but can perfectly fit in every genre of modern electronic music.
With 570 Wav sounds and Kontakt’s sound shape possibilities PLATFORM can be an essential tool in the studio when you need that off/center non standard sound.
This arsenal of high-end sound effects is now on your fingertips with 18 Kontakt Instruments and tons of sound shaping filters and envelopes, 13 effects, a rhythm section featuring a step sequencer, filter sequencer, 2 filter LFOs, and gain/pan/pitch LFOs.
If you’re looking for instant inspiration and raw emotions PLATFORM is the right heavy-hitter for you.
The ultimate sound pack featuring dark ambient sound textures for your project. This ambient sound pack includes 9 royalty free .wav tracks, ready to use background music. These dark and mysterious music track include deep pads, eerie melodies and a mysterious ambiance. Great background music for videos, mysterious cave music and mysterious film music.
A macabre mixture of authentic realistic recordings, physical modeling synthesis, and cutting edge sound design pieces featuring disturbing ambiances, unnerving toys, and dolls, doomful sub booms, petrifying wood, metal, and glass sounds, haunting drones, and sinister risers, reverses, suckbacks, whooshes, and transitions.
Finalist – Best Sound Effects Libary – Indie Sound Awards 2022
The sound ‘Kind Creature’ made with the V7 library won the British Sound of the Year Award presented by The Museum Of Sound and The New BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
Custom made sounds made with the V7 are used in the scores for Control, Wolfenstein and newer projects by award winning game composer Martin Stig Andersen.
V7 is a home-built metal spring sound-tool made from an old measurement-unit found at a flea market. Now – disassembled, rebuilt and mounted amongst other things with a 33 foot long Giant Spring that connects the measurement box to an open metal staircase and creates a natural spring reverb.
I Played with a bow, friction rubber clubs, metal slides, whipped cream gas cartridges and a souvenir Eiffel Tower.
The result is a unique sound effect library of massive metallic hits, gongs, scrapes, squeaks, friction, rumbles and rattles. From subtle, soft squeaks and harsh, brutal metal shrieks to long and deep musical metal moans.
V7 is recorded with an Ehrlund EHR-E microphone placed inside the metal box. All files are in 96 kHz/24 bit and contains the original acoustic recordings.
73 files with 700 + individual sounds – all tagged with detailed Universal Category System (UCS) metadata.
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?
A: Click to sort the category by most popular horror sound effects libraries
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Q: How do I download the horror sounds?
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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.
Spell Variations Vol. 4 marks the grand finale of our magical sound series, delivering a diverse and powerful collection of spell effects. Inside, you’ll find summonings, blood spells, petrifications, healing spells, dark incantations, and much more!
This volume includes 255 high-quality sound effects, organized into 27 distinct spell types, each with multiple variations (3 to 17) to ensure no spell sounds the same, even when reused across your project.
Each spell type is carefully named and sorted into individual folders, giving you intuitive navigation and maximum flexibility for magical scenes, game effects, or cinematic transitions.
Recorded, edited, and mastered in 192 kHz / 24-bit, these sounds deliver exceptional clarity and full adaptability for pitching, layering, or creative processing.
A must-have library for professional sound designers seeking drag-and-drop magical sounds for video games, trailers, animations, or any audiovisual production.
More about the pack
– Intuitive file naming
– All you’ll ever need regarding magical sounds [Use them again & again
Use the sound effects over and over, in any of your projects or productions, forever without any additional fees or royalties. Use the SFX in your game, in your trailer, in a Kickstarter campaign, wherever you need to, as much as you want to.
– Totally mono compatibility
– All sounds have several variations.
– Use your imagination and feel free to use any sound for a creature other than the one described, remember that the world of sound is totally subjective.
– For any questions or problems: [email protected]
Features
– 255 spell sounds
– Number of Audio Waves: 255
– Format: 192KHz / 24 bits
– Win/Mac: Yes
– Minutes of audio provided: 19:21
Audiobeast is proud to present our second sample library; the only library of its kind to focus entirely on weapons being fired in urban environments! For this recording session we were given access to a military training site known as a FIBUA (Fighting In Built-Up Area) consisting of streets with a variety of buildings, vehicles, and exclusive permission to fire weapons in several locations. Pictures of the street and gas station locations and firing points are included.
The aim of this library was to offer the slapback type tails needed for gun sound design for convincing city scenes in film, games and tv production. It’s always been difficult to find gun recordings in a city environment so we hope this library helps sound people everywhere.
This Library contains over 3 GBs of weapons being fired in multiple urban environments, a street, outside of a gas station and inside of a tower block. 218 WAV files of single shots, bursts and many with multiple takes, all recorded at 96 khz 24 bit, with heaps of information on microphones used and distance from the firearms.
Various distances were captured, from the DPA4062 on the guns themselves, to the distant other end of the street 100 metres away. To add, some mics were positioned around corners, a nearby graveyard, through walls and in armored vehicles to capture a variety of perspectives.
Minimal cleanup on the recordings was carried out very carefully so as not to introduce any artefacts into the recordings, they are presented as raw as possible.
If you need a wider selection of interior gun recordings please check out our first library – The London Warehouse Firearms library
MAGIC – ALCHEMY is a professional sound effects library built from real chemical reactions and elemental forces. It delivers short, character-rich magic sound effects perfect for spellcasting, magical UI design, and fantasy storytelling. Designed to sit cleanly in a mix and shimmer with personality, these spell sounds are ideal for games, trailers, audio dramas and more. Real reactions, recorded with obsessive detail.
No digital fakery here. Every sound in MAGIC – ALCHEMY began as a live experiment — alcohol burning in jars, butane growling through pipes, fuses igniting, water swirling in glass. These are true-to-life textures, captured in a lab-grade recording setup. The result? Magical sound with depth, realism, and spark..
These are not long, cinematic flourishes. This library is about immediacy — short, dry, punchy magic effects that are easy to slot into your project. Ideal for game asset design, magical feedback sounds, and trailer moments where clarity counts.
Need a healing chime, a cursed hex, or something more ambiguous? The Designed section is grouped into Holy, Cursed, and Neutral categories — giving you emotional options that match your scene’s intent, whether you’re crafting a fantasy RPG or a subtle magical interaction.
Whether you’re layering magic for a fantasy film, adding interactive audio to a mobile game, or creating rich textures for audiobooks or theatre, MAGIC – ALCHEMY fits right in. It’s mix-ready, flexible, and full of sonic character.
Florida Thunder by Eric Berzins contains 111 distinct wav files with over 200 dry thunderclaps and over 300 thunderclaps with rain. All files were recorded in the US state of Florida between 2021 and 2025. Florida has more lightning strikes than any other U.S. state! All files have been meticulously edited and cleaned, and have embedded UCS-compliant Soundminer metadata.
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