Demons at your doorstep? We’ve cued up a 13-song party mix to keep them dancing into the dead of night.

1. "My Mind's Playin’ Tricks on Me"
Geto Boys
Old-school rhyme about gun-wielding ghetto specters and ripping off trick-or-treaters.

2. "Kandy Korn"
Captain Beefheart
The silly prog-rocker gives a nod to the beloved, fang-shaped Halloween treat.

3. "Death Rides a Brown Horse"
An Albatross
A spaz-metal blast that will peel your face paint off.

4. "Kernkraft 400"
Zombie Nation
Thumping, electronic club anthem capturing that end-of-night feeling when everyone has had too much, ahem, candy.

5. "They Are Night Zombies!!"
Sufjan Stevens
Sufjan's insistent croon and some creepily chanting girlie voices beckon the living dead.

6. "Little Ghost"
The White Stripes
A bluesy torch song from the band's Lucifer-ous album Get Behind Me Satan.

7. "Skeleton"
Bloc Party
A disco-punk ditty laments feeling like that iconic bag of bones.

8. "Halloween"
Misfits
Danzig belts out this punk classic about, well, you know.

9. “Walking With a Ghost”
Tegan and Sara
Electronic folk-pop that strolls with the otherworldly.

10. "Song for the Dead"
Queens of the Stone Age
Eerie organs and ghostly "ooh, ahs" anchor this rocking homage to death.

11. "The Man Comes Around"
Johnny Cash
The Man in Black dreading that other Man in Black.

12. "Everything Evil"
Coheed and Cambria
Emo plus a vengeful, Afro-sporting front man will bring out "everything evil in you."

13. "Something Like a Phenomenon"
LL Cool J
Did you hear something, LL and Karen O? It's the angry ghost of Grandmaster Flash. He wants his hook back.

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