Sound effects tag

Dark Sound Effects

Dark sound effects for scenes where the lights are low and something is wrong. Drones that hang in the air, and whispers at the edge of hearing. Haunted places on a loop, from asylums and catacombs to prisons and empty hospitals. Even interface sounds go dark, cold and menacing for a sci-fi HUD. It's mood more than event.

Libraries
68
Publishers
35
Formats
Mono, stereo
Sample rates
44.1 to 192 kHz
Licence
Royalty-free for commercial work
Price range
$9.99 to $179
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Recorded or designed
RecordedDesigned

Recorded means captured in the field or a studio. Designed means built from other material.

Channel format
MonoStereoM/SSurroundAmbisonic

Mono for 3D positional audio. Ambisonic and surround for immersive mixes.

Embedded metadata
Tagged for Soundminer or UCSUntagged

Soundminer and UCS fields written into the files.

All 68 libraries tagged Dark.
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All 68 libraries tagged Dark

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96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Dark, haunting sound effects blend orchestral elements with psychological horror, featuring 800 high-quality files of impacts, stingers, and cinematic elements across 2.5 hours of disturbing audio content.
800 files · 5.61 GB · Metadata
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192 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Mono, Stereo.
Extensive collection of menacing sound effects featuring diverse creature vocalizations, from dragon roars to zombie groans, delivered in multiple audio formats for professional projects.
348 files · 416 MB · Metadata
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Haunting drones merge with oppressive analog textures and unsettling sound effects, while desolate ambiences and heavy impacts create atmospheric layers for cinematic projects.
129 files · 1.17 GB
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48 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Haunting atmospheric sound effects encompass fifteen high-quality files, featuring eight distinct dark ambiences with multiple variations to build suspenseful, eerie environments.
15 files · 647 MB
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Eerie spaceship ambiences and unsettling sound effects blend organic field recordings with synthetic elements to create haunting sci-fi atmospheres suitable for futuristic horror environments.
116 files · 8.0 GB · Metadata
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48 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Horror ambience sound effects featuring 24 loopable designed soundscapes across haunted locations including asylums, catacombs, graveyards, ghost towns, forests, hospitals, prisons, mansions and underwater shipwrecks in exploration and tension variations.
24 files · 186 MB · Metadata

Dark material works by sitting underneath. Play a low Drone under a dinner party and suddenly nobody at the table can be trusted. The libraries here are built for that slow pressure, with long loopable ambiences for haunted locations and designed textures that build for trailers. Some lean Eerie, all whispers and distant movement. Others lean industrial, with gritty pulses for ruined cities and abandoned facilities. Dark whooshes and stingers cover the moment it all turns. Horror games use this stuff as level beds, and thrillers use it so quietly you never notice it's there.

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