Mike Harding Sound Effects No. 13: Death & Horror (2016 Reissue)

• Mike Harding – The Guillotine
• Mike Harding – Arm Chopped Off
• Mike Harding – Head Chopped Off
• Mike Harding – Sawing Head Off

• 1. The Guillotine
• 2. Arm Chopped Off
• 3. Head Chopped Off
• 4. Sawing Head Off
• 5. Leg Chopped Off
• 6. Neck Twisted And Broken
• 7. Arm Broken
• 8. Stake Driven Through Heart
• 9. Branding Iron On Flesh
• 10. Red Hot Poker Into Eye
• 11. Nails Hammered Into Flesh
• 12. The Scaffold (Trap Opens, Body Falls)
• 13. Sawing Leg Off
• 14. The Firing Squad (Commands And Volley)
• 15. Whipping
• 16. 3 Gun Shots
• 17. Burning At The Stake
• 18. Dagger Thrown Into Wood
• 19. Arrows Fired Into Wood
• 20. The Pendulum
• 21. The Mad Gorilla
• 22. Monsters Roaring
• 23. Wolf Howling
• 24. 3 Werewolves Howling
• 25. Wolves Baying At The Moon
• 26. Wolves Howling And Snarling
• 27. The Hell-Hound (Growling And Snarling)
• 28. The Hell-Hound (Panting)
• 29. Bats Calling
• 30. Bats Squeaking And Flying
• 31. Dracula In Flight
• 32. Snake Hissing
• 33. Rattlesnake
• 34. A Cat Howl
• 35. Creaky Door Closes
• 36. Creaky Door Opens
• 37. Heavy Creaky Door Closes
• 38. Heavy Creaky Door Opens
• 39. Coffin Lid Closes
• 40. Nailing Coffin Lid Down
• 41. Coffin Lid Opening
• 42. Assorted Creepy Creaks
• 43. Crypt Door Closing
• 44. Grave Digging (In Stoney Ground)
• 45. Grave Digging (In Wet Ground)
• 46. Portcullis Closing
• 47. Phantom Of The Opera (Organ Sounds)
• 48. Ghostly Piano Sound (Low Pitch)
• 49. Ghostly Piano Sound (Low Pitch)
• 50. Ghostly Piano Sound (Low Pitch)
• 51. Ghostly Piano Sound (High Pitch)
• 52. Ghostly Piano Sound (High Pitch)
• 53. Ghostly Piano Sound (High Pitch)
• 54. The Lost Chord
• 55. A Gong Roll
• 56. Gong Struck Once
• 57. Ghostly Footsteps (With Chains)
• 58. Squelching Footsteps
• 59. Strangulation (Male)
• 60. One Scream (Male)
• 61. Scream (Male)
• 62. Scream (Male)
• 63. Three Men Screaming
• 64. Heavy Breathing (Male)
• 65. Two Screams (Female)
• 66. Two Screams (Female)
• 67. Scream (Female)
• 68. Scream (Female)
• 69. Scream (Female)
• 70. One Long Scream (Female)
• 71. Two Women Screaming
• 72. One Woman Sobbing
• 73. Heavy Breathing (Female)
• 74. Lunatics Laughing
• 75. Human Heartbeats
• 76. Electronic Heartbeats
• 77. Frankenstein's Heartbeats
• 78. Thunderclap
• 79. Thunderclap
• 80. Thunderclap
• 81. Thunderclaps And Rain
• 82. Approaching Thunder
• 83. Rain And Distant Thunder
• 84. Heavy Rain
• 85. Eerie Wind
• 86. Weird Wind
• 87. Cathedral Bell Tolling
• 88. Church Bell Tolling
• 89. Church Bell Tolling In The Wind
• 90. Wind Howling In Ship's Rigging
• 91. Jungle At Night
• 92. Tropical Atmosphere At Night
• 93. The Electronic Swamp
• 94. Dr. Jekyll's Lab
• 95. Midnight In The Graveyard
• 96. Daytime In The Graveyard
• 97. The Chinese Water Torture
• 98. Boiling Oil

BBC Records was created in the ’60s to exploit the corporation’s audio archive for both educational and commercial purposes. Of the many TV tunes, comedy shows and sound effects releases, one of its most memorable volumes is this collection of over 80 gruesome sounds.

Released in 1977, Mike Harding of the Radiophonic Workshop captures Death & Horror brilliantly with six blood-curdling sections: ‘Execution and Torture’, ‘Monsters and Animals’, ‘Creaking Doors and Grave Digging’, ‘Musical Effects and Footsteps’, ‘Vocal Effects and Heartbeats’, ‘Weather, Atmosphere and Bells’. From sawing limbs to screams and howling, you better believe that some cabbages and carrots were harmed in the process of making this album. It’s all very Berberian Sound Studio.

The album, number 13 in the BBC’s Sound Effects series, has been given its first ever vinyl reissue by the rather suitably named Demon Records. Presented on 180g 'blood-splattered' vinyl.