What are your favorite SCARY songs?

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"Hollow Hills", by Bauhaus

Since I'm not scared by music, I guess there is some dark music I listen to for example
Gerard McMann - Cry Little Sister
Echo and the Bunnymen - People Are Strange
Tales From the Crypt Christmas cd
Dr. Demento cd - Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun, Masochism Tango
Nightmare Before Christmas soundtrack
Bush - Mouth
Garbage - The World is Not Enough(more scary for you than me, because this is going to be my theme music whe-if I take over the world. <_< >_>

Caukazoid Germ by Sixtoo

Any Slayer song.

"Aumgn" by Can from the Tago Mago album is one scary piece of music!

I should also mention Come To Daddy by the Aphex Twin. I think there's sometimes a thin line between horror and comedy!
There's another techno track I find a bit disturbing - disturbingly hypnotic - called Remind by Orbital.

I really like dark ambient music. There's a great piece on the Apocalypse Now soundtrack called Voyage, composed by Coppola himself.
I like some death metal too. Choosing one track would be too difficult.

As for classical music, Night on Bald Mountain by Mussorgsky is quite dark. I suppose one of the most obvious scary classical pieces would be Carmina Burana by Orff, but there's another choral piece I find even more disturbing - from Dialogues des Carmelites by Poulenc. The first time I heard it I found it quite uneasy listening. I found out the opera was set during the French Revolution, and the scene I'd been listening to was supposed to be a group of nuns singing as they lined up to be guillotined.

Yeah, there's a difference between a song being fun-creepy and a song being just plain scary, not to mention the mid-range gloomy sorts of songs you listen to in order to feed a depression or mope. I like a fun-creepy song, especially at the appropriate time of Halloween. Then I like:

Five Little Pumpkins (kid song, sung a cappella by Raffi... creeped my daughter out)
Skin and Bones (another kid song)
Toccata and Fugue
The Danse Maccabre
The Mephisto Waltz
Funeral March of a Marionette
The Remains of the Day (Corpse Bride)
Don't Fear the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
Dance of the Wild Fairies - Gary Stadler
Dream Spell - Gary Stadler
Are You Coming with Us? -Gary Stadler
Older - They Might Be Giants
I Hope That I Get Old Before I Die - TMBG
And my version of Down By the Station (the children's song) --

Down by the graveyard early in the morning
See the little coffins open all in a row
As the vampire bats fly out to get some muncheon
Flap flap squeak squeak! Off they go!

And the gloomy songs are whatever song feels right at the time, let's face it... I usually sing the song sung by Pippin in Return of the King when I'm feeling bummed or frustrated, helps me vent steam without getting too far into the thing.

But scary... what terrifies me is a complicated thing. Over the years I have from time to time become fascinated with an image or song, something that frightened me for whatever reason. Such things still haunt me because something about each thing just struck me with fear. The Journey song "Open Arms" reminds me of a horrible story someone told about a tornado at the time I heard it, and because that whole album just sounded like funeral music to me. After 9/11 there was a song, I think it was called "I am Overcome" at least, that was the refrain the guy kept singing. I heard it in a store and had to leave. A lot of songs that are supposed to be romantic have just sounded creepy and sinister, mournful... And someone here once mention the song "Bright Eyes" and do you know, that song... I went and found it, and it scares the living HELL out of me. I don't even fear death generally speaking. I don't fear dying I mean. I do fear seeing my husband or children with the light gone from their eyes, putting them into boxes and into the ground. I believe that we will be together again, but the idea of seeing them dead meanwhile, hey, no promise of eternity makes that easy. Easier, but not easy. And hearing Bright Eyes is like sitting and watching everyone you know and love grow cold and still right in front of you. Horrible.

It isn't a song but the piece of music I find the scariest (or at least most horrifying) is Threnody for Victims of Hiroshima by Krystof Penderecki:
Threnody for Victims of Hiroshima