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Scary, creepy, nasty horror sound effects and gore sounds
These beasties bring extreme female vocalizations for fighting, action, pain, basic emotional reactions, general gibberish speech and some English words. Get ready for hardcore screaming, shrilling, power shouting, hoarsing, whispering, death rattling, laughing, crying, choking, wheezing, yelping, moaning, groaning, panting, breathing and more.
– 3 different voice characters with various styles: Eris, Kali, Zisa
– 989 files, start and end without silence gaps for immediate implementation
– 192 kHz / 24 bit file resolution with ultrasonics, 783MB unpacked
– source files – cleaned, with basic equalisation contour
– volume normalized to -18 lufs, files under 300 kB to -3dB
– possibility to contact the library author to have made custom vocalizations and quotes for your project
1,500 Monster & Creature sounds!
We’re proud to announce our newest sound library: Monster Within! Clocking in at 1,500 files, we’ve not only included 18 different creatures, monsters, and aliens, but also 25 categories for them! Everything from Attacks, Roars, Giant Footsteps, to detailed foley, vocals and flesh ripping. We think this is a must have Monster and Creature library to add to your collection.
WHAT’S INSIDE
Monster Within is massive. Just look at the list below or download the PDF excel sheet to get an idea of all that you get. Monster Within features more than 1,500 files, 2GB GB of 24bit/96khz .WAV files, all meticulously embedded with Soundminer and Basehead metadata. Monster Within was created by Rick Hernandez, a Los Angeles based professional sound designer. Rick is an accomplished AAA video game sound designer and field recordist. He also works on feature films & television. Learn more about Rick and his company Melee Sound Design.
Monster Within includes the following:
– 18 different creatures and monsters
– Attacks
– Body Movements
– Breathing
– Charges
– Damage
– Death
– Enter
– Exit
– Foley
– Footsteps
– Footsteps Giant
– Grunts
– Hits
– Idles
– Impacts
– Jumps
– Melee
– Pain
– Reactions
– Screams – Roars
– Spawns
– Special Effects
– Swings / Swipes
– Taunts
– Vocals
Household Drones contains a large array of atmospheres conjured up from the most interesting household sources. There are a variety of tonalities included that blend seamlessly together, from the positive to the downright ominous.
All included sound effects are provided in 24bit 96kHz WAV, allowing for further manipulation. Each of the drones was derived from natural sources, organic textures that fit effortlessly into Film, TV and Game soundtracks (both in a musical and sound effects context). Use them in combination with background effects to create abstract and expansive soundscapes, or with instruments to add interesting atonal flourishes.
We have also included the source recordings to give users the opportunity to develop their own sonic experiments and provided extensive metadata to help with file searching.
Plunge your audience into nightmarish DOOM with your very own collection of SCARY, HORRIFYING, and FEAR-inducing synthetic SOUNDSCAPES. From subtle, quiet, and eerie soundscapes, to DARK industrial pounding background environments, push your listeners into a depth-less abyss of eternal darkness with no escape. With select tracks also including musical elements, pulsating basses, percussive instrumentals, and other cinematic additions, this amazing product is not only a crucial part of any horror project’s sound design but can also stand-alone as a true high-quality soundtrack.
HORROR SOUNDSCAPES is the perfect choice to transport your players or users to new dimensions of terror in any scene you require!
ALL NEEDS COVERED
With every aspect of the horror genre as a foreground or background audio, multiple versions and levels of intensity for the sounds, seamless transitions, and formats from Hi-Res WAV to High-Quality MP3, you’ll be spoiled for choice! Includes EXTRA tracks perfect for a PANDEMIC, CORONAVIRUS, or COVID-19 theme. What’s more, HORROR SOUNDSCAPES includes easy contact with our expert team for any additional, custom requests.
A NIGHTMARE THEY WON’T FORGET
Our expert team of sound designers have meticulously crafted each soundscape into CONTINUOUS, NON-REPETITIVE, DRAG AND DROP-READY LOOPS that will serve as perfect background audio for your game, film, animation, or live event! We have even included FULL and SIMPLIFIED MIXES, SHORT and LONG non-repetitive variants, multiple choices for INTENSITIES, and numerous other options for your convenience!
INCREDIBLE EASE-OF-USE
Each audio file is drag-and-drop ready, presented in high-quality MP3 and WAV formats with meticulously labeled keywords, so you can create the perfect gaming experience for your players 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 600+ games worth of experience have culminated in this extraordinary pack of soundscapes.
Look no further than blockbuster films to see how crucial incredible audio is for a truly immersive horror experience. With this in mind, we have meticulously designed HORROR SOUNDSCAPES for you to immerse your audience in maximum tension.
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Synthetic Drones is the beginning of a new, affordable series aimed at delivering high quality cinematic soundscapes, with variety and flexibility in mind to induce dread and discomfort onto your audiovisual ventures.
Synthetic Drones was achieved by running a multitude of analog synthesizers through complex effects chains, resulting in resonant, cold, mechanical ambiences where its source remains abstract and mysterious.
Each audio file contains several variations of the same synthesizer and effects chain, ranging from simple resonant notes, abstract rhythmic clanging and organic soundscapes, rounded up with a futuristic approach, perfect for gloomy science-fiction projects. The takes are long and evolving, giving you creative freedom to use them however deemed necessary.
This surreal time of COVID-19 and global lockdowns has inspired me to experiment with previously recorded urban soundscapes.
City streetscapes have been stretched and manipulated to create eerie, foreboding drones and a sense of desolation.
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Bowed Cymbal 2 HD is a collection of 102 bowed cymbal samples using a broken and cut up cymbal, which gives some insane tonalities.
RETRIEVE is a simple but intense collection of 55 Cinematic Rhythmic Loops at 120 BPM (WAV, 96kHz–24bit). They were created with the intention of evoke movement in trailers and musical compositions.
You will find Hi-hats, pulses and a vast selection of rhythmic textures ready to be used as building blocks of tracks or to add a cinematic flavor to your project. Thanks to their cinematic nature this sounds can be used to create very intense cinematic sound design moments.
It’s been awhile since Doom Drones, came out, and we put another excellent collection together that is over twice the size! Enter Doom Drones 2, a collaboration between SoundMorph, Tibo Csuko (Robotic LIfeforms 2, Sinematic 2), Boris Karékine (Robotic LIfeforms 2, Sinematic 2), Real Cardinal (Sinematic 1&2). Doom Drones 2 is a great addition for anyone wanting to enhance dark ominous moments.
Doom Drones 2 contains more than 9.7Gb of eerie, doomful, dark, atmospheric field recordings, designed drones, backgrounds, and musical drones. Perfect for something in the realm of a David Lynch film, ambient music production, a horror film, or just to set the mood of a foreboding sound scape.
All files are 24bit/96khz .WAV stereo files, all meticulously embedded with Soundminer & Basehead metadata.
In this bundle you get all currently available parts of the ANGST | Surrounding Horror Series:
ANGST is a 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 (SMPTE).
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 in this bundle is a huge and versatile bundle of construction-kit layers, which can be combined to countless variations and serve as inspiration for your own dreadful sonic nightmares. Some layers were left dry, others were treated with FX. Some are mixed in 5.1 surround others in stereo. To give you both flexibility and instant usability at hand.
Additionally you get all sounds from the Surround Horror Soundscapes library downmixed to stereo.
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)
The Construction Kit for “ANGST | Surrounding Horror” also is part of the collaboration of sound designer Bony Stoevand Saro Sahihi.
Here you’ll find some of the designed layers that were used to craft the Surround Horror Soundscapes and many newly created layers of fear.
It’s a huge conglomeration of abstract, disturbing sound layers, which can be combined to countless variations or serve as inspiration for your own dreadful sonic nightmares.
It’s a mixture of 250 stereo and 110 surround, dry and wet, loopable sound elements, each with a duration of 0:45, 1:00 or 1:30 min.
To give you both flexibility and instant usability at hand.
It’s also available as a BUNDLE containing also the “Designed Soundscapes” and “Stereo Downmixes”
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).
Here are very useful source material of animal growls, recorded in Morocco in a very dry acoustic environment (the desert). These sounds will prove to be a very good source for creating your own monster, creature sounds.
These were recorded HD in 192 kHz with the incredible Sanken CO-100k microphone. Perfect to pitch down and have fun. You can learn more about the recordings of these sounds on the blog: soundxplorer.com/camel-growl-vocalizations
The scary and creepy creature sounds you`ve been looking for your projects.
Dark Creature Sounds is a creature sound effects library created following the highest standard to provide the maximum quality. The perfect sounds for your game, film or media project.
Includes a variety of roars, groans, hisses, grunts, warning, screeches, throat, breaths, hurt and death sounds from monsters, golems, zombies, dragons, dinosaurs, devils, cyborgs, mutants and other world creatures.
Ready to use and royalty free sounds.
TECHNICAL INFO:
• Number of files: 116
• Format: WAV 192kHz/24Bit Stereo
• Includes Metadata
OPEN CONTRACT is a collection of 165 Rhythmic Loops at 96kHz – 24bit + Bonus of 35 sounds for a total of 200 sounds.
These Loops were created with the goal of evoke a dark and cinematic feeling in trailers and scores.
You will find: Kicks, hi-hats, clocks, hits and impacts, experimental loops and a good amount of designed loops ready to be used to enhance your track.
If you are working in the score for an action movie/game or horror production you will find some useful stuff in this pack.
Check the demos for a good glimpse of what you can get in some of the categories and how this loops can be use in music compositions.
Inject life into your Orc and Goblin voices with this massive NEWLY UPDATED sound library of warmongering voice overs, expertly recorded for authentic battle-ready characters! Inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of The Rings and The Hobbit, as well as the creatures found in Skyrim, Elder Scrolls, WarCraft, Warhammer, and Dungeons and Dragons (DnD), this audio pack includes 180 audio files of HISSES, ROARS, GROANS, GRUNTS, BREATH sounds, CHOKING, GURGLING, Phrases responding to a Master’s commands, and many more… All in cutting-edge cinematic fantasy quality, with multiple premium WAV and MP3 formats for your convenience.
GROW YOUR MOUNTAIN ARMY
Featuring a HUGE variety of situational sounds, such as WARNINGS, ATTACK SEQUENCES, Inquisitive QUESTIONS, HURT WAILS, vocal NOISES, and most commonly used Orc words and phrases in games. Combine them together to spawn goblins and orcs, all obedient to do your bidding!
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With Sinister 2 sound library Sound Response brings you professionally designed, dark cinematic impacts & transition sound effects collection perfect for thriller, action, or horror movies, games, teasers, trailers, videos, music, and more!
From massive disturbing hits, shattering horror impacts, strikes and slams, creepy stingers and shockers, to the eerie, unnerving, tension-building whoosh and transition sound effects, Sinister 2 sound library will provide you with the right audio tool for eliciting and enhancing fear, anticipation and suspense. With this intense sound collection at your disposal, you’ll have a powerful audio arsenal for unleashing sonic hell that will keep your audience on the edge of their seats!
Sinister 2 – Impacts & Transitions sound library contains 452MB (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 Sinister 2 sound library then be sure to check out the first installment Sinister Impacts & Transitions and also latest release from Sound Response – Thriller Risers for even more creepy horror hits, strikes, whooshes & build-up sound effects!
AntiSystem, a brand new collection of 570+ Horror Sci-fi one-shot samples and loops with a technoid approach, created in collaboration with South American sound designer Matias Cerviño and SampleTraxx.
Antisystem delivers tension and excitement with a genre-crossing, detailed hard-hitting sound design. Especially suitable for horror and sci-fi projects, it brings to the table a complete arsenal of unmistakable signature sound effects.
1,6 GB of WAV samples with Key Information, 15 Categories, and 17 Kontakt Instruments ready to be fired in your next project.
Inject a new wave of sonic madness!
Categories:
Atmosphere
Atmospheric Elements
Cinematic Movement
Crescendo
Feedback Larsen
Glitch Stutter
Hit Design 1
Hit Design 2
Loops with Kontakt tempo sync
Low Hit
Low Key Elements
Ramp Up Woosh By
Reverse
Rise
Topping Elements
Features:
1.6 GB of content
15 Categories
570+ Wav samples 48/24 with key information
17 Kontakt Instruments – Full version 5.8 needed
Kontakt Free Player not supported
Trailer Instruments Designed contains a variety of effects captured from abstract instruments and manipulated into impacts, drones, stingers, risers and more by our award-winning Sound Designers. We recorded our custom-built Waterphone, Dulcimer, Thunder Tube, Hand Drum, Bells, Violin, Guitar, Chimes and more.
These sounds are perfect for accentuating music tracks and adding a cinematic edge to trailers or full film scenes. All effects were recorded in 24Bit 96kHz, allowing for further sonic manipulation.
If you need some designed effects with a natural, abstract tone, this library is for you! Trailer Instruments Designed is ideal for use in Film, TV and Game projects, and will make a perfect addition to your sound design arsenal.
Here are the included folders:
Drones: Build tension with airy and tonal drones that blend well with music and effects.
Impacts: Huge trailer impacts made from natural recordings.
LFE Rumbles: Extended recordings were manipulated to bring huge rumbles to your tracklay.
Risers: Unique and edgy riser effects will heighten the builds and drops in your project.
Stingers: A great way to add strange, tonal elements to your mix.
Sub Drops: Huge low end drops, perfect for layering with impacts and other sounds.
Sounds of a tortured, tormented and ultimately destroyed vintage piano.
Utilising tools including sledgehammers, axes, hand saws, screwdrivers, pliers, hammers & mallets, this library features the eerie sounds of distressed wires as well as huge impacts with musical tails.
Multiple microphones were used to capture various perspectives of the destruction including; Jez Riley French C-Series contact stereo pair, Sennheiser 8020 stereo pair, Schoeps CCM4/CCM8 MS and the Sennheiser 416. The Sound Devices 788T was utilised as the recorder.
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GORE Sound Kit is a package of Viscous, Glue, Squishy and Drench sounds Cracking, manipulating, and dropping juicy sounds. The library contains 376 files of Blood splashing, Bone cracking, and Flesh tearing simulation. Perfect for horror and gore projects!
It includes more than 150 files recorded with many Glue substances. Perfect for viscous manipulation, suction and farting sound too.
Each sound has been meticulously edited individually, All files were recorded and are delivered in 24 Bit 96 kHz Broadcast Wave files, all embedded with metadata information for easy import and ensure fast and easy workflow.
The eerie sound of wind resonating through wires, fences and abandoned buildings.
Recorded using the JrF C-Series contact microphone, these recordings capture the metallic resonance of wind with natural ebbs and flows.
All sounds were recorded using the JrF C-Series contact microphone stereo pair and Sound Devices Mix-Pre 6.
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Sculpted by professional sound designers with dozens of blockbuster advertising credits, these reverse sound effects will lend proper tension to any trailer or track.
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?
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.
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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