Dark Side of the Net

Here are my favorite Halloween and witchy background music and spooky ambience YouTube channels. Some are more relaxing than others; some of these channels lean really heavy into rain and crackling fire sounds, and some are better for background music at your haunted Halloween parties. Subscribe to a couple of channels so you have them ready for the spooky season! I work at home and often have one of these channels on in the background while I work on the computer. It helps me relax but also focus and get work done.

If you love chatting about Halloween and the spooky season year-round, you can join other Halloween enthusiasts in online chat groups, forums, subreddits, and Facebook groups. Here are some of the interesting communities for Halloween fanatics I've discovered lately. Make friends with other Halloween shopaholics, enthusiasts, homemade costume sewers, cosplayers and DIY haunt experts. It's so nice to find other fanatics who love Halloween as much as we do!

Welcome to Witch City's baby shop. The Baby Bat specializes in everything you will need for your wee darkling. There are cribs, bassinets, baby clothes, blankies and snugglers, plush toys, baby dishes, and creepy nursery decor. The witch who owns this shop, Beatrix, will guide you through your baby provisioning journey, and show you a few adorable plushies for your baby's stroller.

Welcome to Witch City's matcha tea shop! Megumi invites you inside her cozy shop. She'll brew you a strong, steaming cup of matcha tea, or help you select teas and matcha accessories so you can make yourself matcha tea and matcha lattes in your own home. This witchy purveyor also carries a lovely selection of matcha tea cups, teapots and mugs. While you shop, sip and enjoy your cup of matcha tea. There's no need to hurry.

Saoirse sells spooky socks in her cozy storefront. She sells striped socks, fuzzy socks, cozy socks, witchy socks, and gothic socks. Venture in and find a few fun pairs to keep your legs and feet warm this autumn.

Winifred welcomes you into her warm and fragrant candle shop. She sells votives, jar candles, travel tins, three wick candles, hearth candles, beeswax candles, taper candles, witchy candles and gothic candles. Find yourself the perfect candle to ward off autumn's gloom on dark rainy evenings.

Tabitha offers creepy dolls, spooky plush toys, scary jack-in-the-boxes, Halloween-themed toys and witch-themed playthings. Perhaps you'll find your favorite new doll companion, a creepy clown, or a cuddly plushie here.

Katerina sells everything you need to provision your kitchen to make delicious meals for yourself and your family. She sells witchy bakeware, cookware, kitchen tools, towels, aprons, and dishes, plus gourmet food ingredients, spices, oils and baking supplies.

This apothecary carries handy household items like tinctures, over the counter medicines, bath and body products, herbal remedies, organic skincare products, herbs and spices, and supplements. Step inside and you'll get a guided tour of the shop from the friendly shopkeeper, Annabelle. She'll let you touch and taste the herbs and spices, and she'll give you a hand massage with her newest organic lotions. Perhaps she'll pour you a cup of herbal tea to sip while you browse!

Welcome to Witch City's jewelry shop, Gilded Moon Jewelry! The shopkeeper, Luna, carries gothic, pagan and Wiccan jewelry, including spiderwebs, Celtic crosses, garnet necklaces, dagger earrings, spike bracelets, and a few cybergoth items.

Witch City's antique shop is Timeless Treasures, where you'll find retro charm with a darker flair. The shopkeeper, Tess, will let you browse in peace, or guide you to some intriguing finds. She carries vintage tea cups and teapots, old hand mirrors, smaller antique furniture items, a few antiquarian books, some antique jewelry, lacy black doilies, and a well curated collection of curios. You might even find a working vintage typewriter or two in here.

Here are my little goth books for babies. I created them with the help of ChatGPT to make the images, so these are AI-assisted ebooks. I plan to create a few more in the series. Some of them have a “crocheted doll” look, others have “puppet doll” and others are “needle felted doll” style.

I collect dark and spooky little books for babies and kids. Sometimes I'm allowed to read them to my grandkid! Here are board books, chapter books, picture books and the like for goth babies, wee darklings, and spooky toddlers.

Here are classic horror ebooks and short stories you can read online for free. Make yourself a mug of steaming hot tea, grab a cozy blanket, and settle in by the fireplace for a nice long cozy evening of reading.

Hallmark makes a line of “Itty Bitty” plush dolls, just 3 inches high. They're the perfect size to tuck into a pocket, your purse, laptop bag or backpack to take to school or work with you for company. I've chosen all the “darker” Itty Bittys based on books, movies, comics and games to showcase here for you. So many adorable options!

Here are pumpkin-shaped candles that really add a lovely element to your Halloween and autumn decor schemes. The fragrances fill your home with delightful autumn scents, and the candle containers are pleasing to the eye.

Here are some really cool spooky Halloween decorations, books about Halloween, Halloween plushies, Halloween costumes, creepy cute plushies, toys, games, puzzles and more fun products to help you celebrate the spooky season. We really enjoy finding these cool products for you to check out. Enjoy and happy haunting!

Pottery Barn went “all in” on ghostly decor this season (Halloween 2025). They added a lot of decorative ghosts to their porch and home decor offerings, plus several new ghost candles for your tablescape. There are also a couple of adorably spooky ghost pillows, and a ghost candy server. They've added glittery black trees to their porch and “Haunted garden” yard collections, and beefed up their offerings for your yard.

Since 1993 I've been curating links to websites about goth music, dark alternative, industrial and post-punk. (Basically anything in the dark alternative/goth music scene but not goth metal or metal music). On this list, I'll start adding my old links back in, and updating with new goth bands that have come out recently.

I had ChatGPT and Google Imagefx/Google Whisk help me make these imaginary Little People Collector playsets, as a parody and a joke. I had a lot of fun imagining playing with these horror-movie themed house playsets and horror movie figures. If only these existed in real life! Enjoy revisiting your favorite horror films in tiny toy figure form.

These apothecary candles from Paddywax set the perfect tone and mood for your cottagecore or dark academia home. They smell fantastic (though some of the woody scents are too masculine for my taste). You can reuse the amber glass jars for storing jewelry and trinkets after the soy candles have been all used up.