The season’s here—dead leaves on the ground, fog on the street, and the turntable glowing in the dark. Episode 24 of Mad Ghoul Radio is all about just a few of the records I pull when October comes creeping in.

This week we wander through some of the different corners of October sound—horror punk anthems, shadowy post-punk, gothic whispers, and fuzz-drenched surf riffs that sound like they were cut for drive-in monster flicks. Some tracks are moody and hypnotic, others trashy and chaotic, and a few are just plain strange—but together they map out the full Halloween night: the party, the walk home under streetlights, and the after-hours haze where the ghosts hang around.

And as always, we close the crypt with Trent Reznor—this time his and Atticus Ross’s eerie, industrial reconstruction of a Halloween classic.

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