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Where the Bare Bones-produced Halloween Horror: Scary Sounds from the Hex Files starts off creepily slow and grows to periodic climaxes, Screamin' Halloween Sounds begins with the slam of broken glass and flies high from the first bang. The recurring sounds revolve around a growling--and genuinely freaky--voice that hovers in front of a melange of crashes and screams. There are wicked bells and the click of frightening steps approaching and wind whistling and lots more cage-rattling near-chaos. And like other Bare Bones productions, the 73 minutes of sounds are all gathered into one track. It differs from Halloween Horror, though, in one key way: the growly voice walks the listener through the imaginary landscape of horror, heading "downstairs" to the dismay of the witnesses on the CD, introducing key phases, etc. This is a nice touch, adding skeletal narrative. Try this if you prefer the disembodied-howls approach to Halloween rather than the semispooked music in the background of managed digital chaos. --Andrew Bartlett