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Cinematic Horror Storeroom – Volume 2 is a collection of spooky, gnarly, gritty and screeching loops. There is a variety of sounds in it, all scary! It’s great for underscore, rhythmic suspense, building tension or to convey fear and anxiety.
The library’s interface is made up of three sections:
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.
The DEADLY COMBAT SOUND LIBRARY is a great option if you are looking for crunchy, beefy and gory sound effects for that extra layer of violence in you combat sequences.
• It features 1164 Designed SFX (48khz 24 bit) .wav files
• Files are organized in folders and named under the Universal Category System (UCS)
It’s all ready-to-use!
This bundle contains 5 intense and powerful packs focused on trailers.
You will get: Signature braams, signature pings, trailer booms, atmospheric elements, trailer clocks and action focused cinematic rhythmic loops.
These packs can be a great tool for action movies and trailers.
Packs included:
SUBSTANTIAL: 68 direct and powerful trailer booms.
LAPSE: 134 trailer clocks. Is a simple and straightforward library for creating the famous and well know trailer clock sound.
INFORMER: A collection of signature cinematic pings. 84 files of intense ping sounds.
SECLUSION: A collection of signature Braams and Atmospheric elements for Dystopian and Horror productions. 140 files of pure sonic angst!
OPEN CONTRACT: A collection of 165 Rhythmic Loops + 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.
Ghostly Presences Vol. 3 is the third volume of ambiences created specifically for use in your horror genre projects.
In this instalment, our expert crafts team manipulated drones nerve wracking voice recordings to create a series of haunting ambiences.
These sounds are perfect for individual use or textural layering. Ghostly singing, eerie whistling, deathly drones, wicked whispers, spooky synths and more have been designed to enhance your ghostly soundscape in Film, TV and Game Audio.
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.
Lake Monster Sound Effect Pack 01
The deep of wild rivers hide many secrets and mysteries. This collection lets you take a peek in into the sounds of an imaginary lake monster.
I love horror movies, so I like to experiment with all kinds of monster sound effects. In this collection, I brought the voice of a water monster to life.
This sound effect collection is ideal for use in game software, applications, commercials, movies, TV shows,
videos, animation, and any other entertainment industry where a high-quality audio effect is essential.
30 Water monster sound effect
An excellent choice for horror and sci-fi productions
Witches Vol. 1 is an enchanting library of witch voices and spell-casting sounds
Our Audio Craftsmen have recorded, edited and designed a series of spooky, magical creations perfect for sweetening your witchy scenes. Build an immersive bubbling atmosphere with dynamic broom pass-bys, witch cackles, ruffling spell book pages, spell-casting backgrounds, cauldron lid movement and performances of original curses, hexes and incantations.
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.
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.
Haunting Ambiences Vol. 6 contains multi-layered construction kits for crafting bespoke horror ambiences. This instalment of our popular Haunting Ambiences series comprises the sounds of frightening creatures and apparitions.
Our Audio Craftsmen designed, manipulated and processed a variety of synthesized and recorded sounds to create unnerving ambiences for use in your horror projects. These ambiences feature underwater drones, a cave creature’s lair, an imprisoned monster, ghost children’s laughter, a swamp beast’s calls, and a haunted graveyard.
Each ambience comes with split stems with the same running length, allowing you to experiment with layering and designing across the library. The versatility of these stems mean you can customise backgrounds to suit your horror needs – be it for films, games, live events or escape rooms.
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.
Haunting Ambiences Vol. 5 is the fifth in our popular series of horror ambience libraries. It comprises multi-stem construction kits, allowing you to build unique horror atmospheres through custom layering, panning and mix & matching.
Featured in this library are differently themed horror ambiences, including a boiling witch’s cauldron, radioactive creature screams in an abandoned building, a mad scientist’s twisted laboratory, haunted hotel lobby movement, sacrificial chanting and synthesized nightmare sounds. To make these ambiences, our Audio Craftsmen recorded a multitude of real-world and synthesized sounds, then processed and manipulated them for the ultimate harrowing effect.
This library encourages you to experiment in crafting your own backgrounds for both digital and live horror projects, including films, games and escape rooms.
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 Horror Screams Vol. 1 features ear-ringing, blood-curling, spine-tingling screams performed by a female actor. This collection of vocalisations channels pure fear and pain, making them perfect for your horror genre productions.
Inside is a multitude of sounds performed according to various horror needs, including terrified screeches, shrill shrieks and cries in agonies. Our Audio Craftsmen also recorded screams in a reverberant stairwell to offer an eerie perspective suitable for enhancing your background designs.
You can use this library to amp up the fear in your final girl scenes, design dark and twisted characters, or add immersion to your horror projects.
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.
Exterior Vibrations Vol. 3 comprises textural, tonal sounds recorded with two stereo-figured contact microphones. Our Audio Craftsmen performed dynamic movements across metal, wood and motor vehicles found in the outside world to yield an abstract selection of hits, squeaks, shakes, bounces, braaams! and mechanical sound effects.
These raw recordings are made for further design and are great for adding an abstract edge to your projects.
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.
Haunting Ambiences Vol. 4 is the fourth instalment in one of our most popular series of horror sound effects libraries. This product contains dense, multi-layered construction kits, giving you the tools craft harrowing atmospheres for your terrifying
Haunting Ambiences Vol. 4 is the fourth instalment in one of our most popular series of horror sound effects libraries. This product contains dense, multi-layered construction kits, giving you the tools to craft harrowing atmospheres for your terrifying projects.
Our Audio Craftsmen recorded and designed unusual, unnerving sounds – including screaming voices, chair creaks, bangs, dripping water, bug movement and more – to elicit maximum unease in your audiences. The result is a series of construction kits comprising abandoned sewer, haunted living room, breeding chamber, ghost rider, engine room and eerie forest ambiences.
Also included are split stems with the same running length to encourage experimentation and allow mixing and matching across the library.
This library can be used for constructing unsettling backgrounds for both digital and live horror projects, including films, games and escape rooms.
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.
Strange Game Ambient Loops library is a meticulously designed & game ready ambience loop library created to help you make stunning and immersive audio environments quickly. Great for horror, fantasy, adventure, 3D, 2D mobile app games, motion graphics, film and audio productions. With over 3 hours of game locations, tension, dark moods, you’ll be well equipped to create the perfect feel and soundscape that brings your production to life.
Ghostly Presences Vol. 2 is the second volume in a collection of ambiences created specifically for use in your horror genre projects.
Combining Synth-generated drones and manipulated voice recordings to build haunting and unsettling horror ambiences. This library comprises a variety of sounds crafted for layering or individual use. Included are ghostly chants, deep drones, pulsing synths, haunting whispers and more; a perfect selection for enhancing your horror soundscapes in Film, TV and Game Audio projects!
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.
Bone Crackings Sound Pack 01
Do you like kung fu movies or fistfights where bones are breaking ?
I guarantee you’ll get your dose here !
I have always loved kung-fu, fighting, action movies and games, so there was no question that when I started working with sounds,
I would make such sounds. Even though these are not real broken bone recordings, they can be used perfectly if you are thinking about
a Stephen Seagal elbow fracture or a Mortal Kombat skull bone crush in connection with your production.
Some of them are painful even for me to listen to.
This sound effect collection is ideal for use in game software, applications, commercials, movies, TV shows,
videos,
animation, and any other entertainment industry where a high-quality audio effect is essential.
– 40 Bone crackings sound effect
– An excellent choice for fighting, bonebreaking productions
Add more horror and terror to your projects with this library packed with fear! Providing you with over 500 high-quality audio files of originally designed royalty free trailer-ready horror sounds, each featuring a unique character, intensity, speed and weight, this immense collection of scary epicness is a perfect choice for any type of media that requires cutting edge Hollywood quality dramatic transition and movement sounds.
ENDLESS FLEXIBILITY, WOLD OF POSSIBILITIES
Want to give your audience a ride of their lives by ramping up and down the feel of your project? With a dizzying selection of variant options, including DIFFERENT INTENSITY LEVELS, MULTIPLE LENGTHS, SIMPLIFIED and COMPLEX VERSIONS, FULL SEQUENCES, and many more, a whole world of possibilities is at your fingertips.
HUGE TIMESAVER, EASY TO STUNNING RESULTS
Each single sound in this collection was carefully produced for super-fast and professional results. To instantly boost your project to the next level, simply search for keywords that match the feel you wish to add to your project, drag the sounds listed by your search terms into your project, and blow away your audience by driving their speakers and subwoofers to the maximum, just like that!
Each sound effect is included in 3 different formats for your convenience:
Designed by our team of industry veterans with decades of experience in the AAA gaming industry, this meticulously crafted sound library will add massive value to you project and instantly mind-blowing results for you and your audience.
KEY FEATURES:
DOWNLOAD NOW and reward your audience with an epic scary, ground-shaking experience like no other!
Monstrous Horror Bundle includes 29 of our Horror Sound Effects Libraries. With a total size of 69.6 GB and 2233+ files, this product includes a monstrous variety of eery ambiences, blood curdling screams, gore, monster vocalisations and more!
This bundle provides you with all the tools needed to inject horrific textures in to your Film, Game and TV projects.
For the first time ever Sound Response presents you its whole SFX catalog featuring insane 11.000+ high quality, professionally designed sound effects (49GB) worth $1.271 for only $499!
Inside you’ll find the whole Sound Response sound effects collection that took years to create and design. Whether you’re involved in music production, video games, movie and trailer industry, or any other production, this collection will become an indispensable source for your projects and it’ll provide you with a ton of high quality audio tools!
Sound Response Mega Bundle contains 11.164 sound effects (49GB) in high definition 24bit/96khz Stereo WAV format, embedded with metadata to speed up your workflow.
Inside Mega Bundle you’ll find the following sound libraries: Anime SFX, Magic Spells & Sorcery, Sci-Fi Weapons & Sci-Fi Weapons 2, Binary Code, Binary Code 2 & Binary Code 3, New Horizons, The Future is Now, Sinister Impacts & Transitions, Sinister Impacts & Transitions 2, Annihilation, DATA & DATA 2, Into Abyss, Trailer Impacts, Dystopian Drones, Spaceship Pass-Bys, Signal Interferences, CyberTroops 2040, Sci-Fi Gadgets, Cartoon SFX & Cartoon SFX 2, Whooshes & Transitions, Thrillers Whooshes, Sci-Fi Whooshes,Thriller Risers, Ominous Drones, THE GLITCH & THE GLITCH 2, 8-Bit Retro, and Disturb Impacts & Hits!
Are you ready to create heart-pumping moments with us? Ni Sound brings you the most psychologically disturbing cinematic and game sound library ever! We’re proud to announce our newest production: Dark Games. This is a high-anxiety collection of horrific and mind-twisting cinematic sound effects created by acclaimed sound designers – effectively throwing psychological horror SFX into this library in a gruesome way.
Featuring all the elements of utter darkness with a threatening and horrific theme. From huge cinematic hits to chest-crushing impacts, blood-freezing sweeps to goosebumps-evoking reverses, haunting and menacing stingers with aggressive and aleatoric orchestral sounds, terrifying shockers to drastic heavy braams, tension-builder rises to suspenseful pulses, ominous drums to piercing stingers, frightening whooshes to obscure textures, hypnotically terrifying strings to psychotic distortions, deadly percussions and more. If you’re in the mood for something thrilling and a little scary, look no further.
Every sound in the folder is recorded at 24bit / 192kHz, designed and delivered in industry-standard 24bit / 96kHz to ensure the highest quality for today’s cinematic production needs.
Lots of creatures for your audiovisual project
You will get 107 with a wide variety of sounds for your monsters, we have tried to recreate some characteristics of creatures, such as breathing, deaths, different types of steps according to materials, eating, etc. This library is divided into:
Performing attacks (different intensities)
Receiving attack sounds
Deaths
Growls
Shouts
Eating
Breaths
Footsteps
Grunts
Screams
More about the pack
Intuitive file naming
All you’ll ever need regarding magical elemental 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.
Include Dragon sounds
Features
107 unique monster sounds
Number of Audio Waves: 107
Format: 44,100 Hz / 16 bits
Do Sound FX loop: Some
Minutes of audio provided: 4 minutes and 1 second
Documentation
Lots of creatures for your audiovisual project
You will get a wide variety of monsters, from small, medium and large size. In this library we have tried to recreate all the characteristics of the monsters, breathing, gills, visceral movements, etc. This library is divided into:
Attacks.
Danger Sounds.
Friendship Call
Scream
Footsteps
Footstep with Material
Growl
Slobber
Breathings
Roars
Eating
Grunt
Death
Receive Attack
Mutation
Bite
Angry
Flying
More about the pack
Intuitive file naming
All you’ll ever need regarding magical elemental 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 between 3 and 5 variations.
The sounds of Breathe and Fly are in Loop format.
Features
141 unique monster sounds
Most of the sounds are split into regular and caw versions so you can freely choose which one to use.
Number of Audio Waves: 141
Format: 44,100 Hz / 16 bits
Do Sound FX loop: Yes
Minutes of audio provided: 3 minutes and 12 seconds
Documentation
The Reverses Bundle is a versatile collection of recordings and designed sounds that have been flipped 180 degrees!
To make this bundle, our Audio Craftsmen recorded a vast array of sounds ranging all the way down to subsonic frequencies. Glass, voices, water, impacts, animals, tools, guitar strings, church bells, paper and many more materials and sources were captured, edited and designed. For the pièce de résistance: our Craftsmen made a sonic U-turn and reversed every sound!
The result is a sonic emporium of avant-garde, dynamic sounds ideal for tension-building and flashback scenes in your Film, TV & Game projects.
The entire bundle is delivered at 24Bit 192kHz and tagged with extensive Metadata for ease of use.
LAPSE is a collection of 134 trailer clocks (24 Bit / 96 kHz, WAV, UCS). Is a simple and straightforward library for creating the famous and well know trailer clock sound.
This pack is a powerful kit of designed ticks, ready to be dropped in your session and create a tense and dark track.
You will find the classic ticks and more. LAPSE is a great addition to your collection.
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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