• Forsaken Themes: Music of the Monstrous and the Macabre
    (my first compilation, 1997)

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    Nearly 74 minutes of incredibly intense & thrilling horror themes. At the time I made this compilation, most if not all of these cues were unavailable on CD. While I've been able to track down a number of them since then, a lot still remain Forsaken (indicated with a *) or in incomplete form to this day. Includes themes from:

    The Runestone (David Newman)
    Necronomicon (Joe LoDuca/*Daniel Licht)
    *Ghost In The Machine (Graeme Revell)
    *Rawhead Rex (Colin Towns)
    The Guardian (Jack Hues)
    *Scarecrows (Terry Plumeri)
    *Hellbound (George S. Clinton)
    The Trigger Effect (James Newton Howard)
    Vampirella (Joel Goldsmith)
    *The Manitou (Lalo Schifrin)
    *The Dungeonmaster (Richard Band/Shirley Walker)
    Frankenstein Unbound (Carl Davis)
    *Edge Of Sanity (Fredric Talgorn)
    The Punisher (Dennis Dreith)
    *Mindwarp (Mark Governor)
    *House IV (Harry Manfredini)
    Severed Ties (Daniel Licht)
    *Hideous (Richard Band)

  • The Film Music Of Vincent Price
    (my second compilation, 1998)

    I've now retired this title and replaced it with a new Vince compilation (see below)

    70 minutes of music from various Vincent Price movies, most for the first time on CD. Includes themes from:

    Diary Of A Madman - Richarde LaSalle
    Tower Of London - Michael Anderson
    The Fall Of The House Of Usher - Les Baxter
    The Haunted Palace - Ronald Stein
    Conqueror Worm - Kendall Schmidt
    The Pit And The Pendulum - Les Baxter
    The Mad Magician - Emil Newman/Arthur Lange
    The Oblong Box - Harry Robinson
    The Comedy Of Terrors - Les Baxter
    The Fly - Paul Sawtell
    The Return Of The Fly - Paul Sawtell/Burt Sheffer
    The Tingler
    The Raven - Les Baxter
    Madhouse - Douglas Gamley
    Theatre Of Blood - Michael J. Lewis
    The Masque Of The Red Death - David Lee
    The Tomb Of Ligea - Kenneth V. Jones
    War Gods Of The Deep - Stanley Black
    Dr. Phibes - Basil Kirchin
    Dr. Phibes Rises Again - John Gale
    The Offspring - Jim Manzie
    Tales Of Terror - Les Baxter
    Bloodbath At The House Of Death - Mike Moran/Mark London
    House Of Wax - David Buttolph
    House Of Long Shadows - Richard Harvey

  • Forsaken Themes 2: Much of Madness, More of Themes 2CDs
    (my third compilation, April 2002)

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    Two full hours of MORE incredibly intense & thrilling horror score themes. Most, if not all, cues available for the first time on CD. Includes themes from:

    DISC ONE:
    1. Intro: Hocus Pocus - John Debney (vocal: Sarah Jessica Parker)
    2. Progeny - Steven Morrell
    3. Spectre - Christopher Lennertz
    4. Sometimes They Come Back - Terry Plumeri
    5. An American Werewolf In London - Elmer Bernstein
    6. Cameron’s Closet - Harry Manfredini
    7. The Witches - Stanley Myers
    8. Die Monster Die - Don Bank
    9. The Car - Leonard Rosenman
    10. Intruder - Resopmoc Nekasrof
    11. The Haunting - Humphrey Searle
    12. The Watcher In The Woods - Stanley Myers
    13. The Rainkiller - Terry Plumeri
    14. Invasion - David Krystal
    15. Slugs - Tim Souster
    16. The Burial Of The Rats - Eduard Artemyev
    17. Theatre Of Death - Elisabeth Lutyens
    18. Slaughter High - Harry Manfredini
    19. Incubus - Stanley Myers
    20. Raging Angels - Terry Plumeri

    DISC TWO:
    1. Rumpelstiltskin - Charles Bernstein
    2. Sometimes They Come Back Again - Peter Manning Robinson
    3. Little Witches - Nicholas Rivera
    4. Night Of The Demons 3 - Dennis Michael Tenney
    5. Murder By Moonlight - Trevor Jones
    6. Creepshow 2 - Rick Wakeman / Les Reed
    7. The Turn Of The Screw - Simon Boswell
    8. Waxwork - Roger Bellon
    9. Carnival Of Souls - Andrew Rose
    10. Killer Eye - Carl Dante
    11. The Gate - Michael Hoenig/J. Peter Robinson
    12. Basket Case 3 - Joe Renzetti
    13. The Kiss - J. Peter Robinson
    14. The Unnamable II - David Bergeaud
    15. Dark Angel - Fuzzbee Morse
    16. Night of the Demons - Dennis Michael Tenney

  • Forsaken Themes 3: Bigger, Longer and Unreleased
    (my fourth compilation, June 2002)

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    The format is changed slightly from the previous two installments. Whereas those had many cues from many composers and many films, this time there are only 8 films from 8 (well, techincally 9) different composers. 75 minutes of tense & thrilling horror and suspense style scores. All scores have absolutely NO SOUND EFFECTS OR DIALOGUE. They also have great sound quality except where noted.

    1. Child's Play 2 - Graeme Revell (7:53) average/good sound quality
    2. The Ghoulies - Shirley Walker/Richard Band (9:01) average/good sound quality
    3. I Still Know What You Did Last Summer - John Frizzell (9:50)
    4. Man's Best Friend - Joel Goldsmith (7:07)
    5. Reindeer Games - Alan Silvestri (11:43)
    6. South Park - Marc Shaiman (6:57)
    7. Timemaster - Harry Manfredini (11:18)
    8. Valentine - Don Davis (11:20)

  • Music from the Films of Vincent Price
    (my fifth compilation, replacing the previous Vince compilation, April 2003)

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    Click on the "tray" link above for the contents. 80 minutes of music from classic Vincent Price films.

  • Forsaken Themes 4: That Which Would Not Have Been 2CDs
    (my sixth compilation, October 2005)

    Two hours and twenty minutes of music from film scores that haven't seen the light of day on CD. 33 films, 31 composers. Click on the tray link below for the contents.

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