Dread — Horror SFX Pack

A working toolkit, not a highlight reel.

Horror needs layers: something long and awful underneath, something sharp on top, and the small human sounds that make it land. Most packs sell you twenty jumpscare stingers and one drone. This is built the way a scene is built.

The atmosphere loops properly. Every drone and ambience had its loop point measured and corrected — end-to-start seams brought under 3 dB, most under 2. You can lay these under a scene of any length without a click betraying it.

What's inside

Atmosphere — low dread drone, dissonant string cluster, abandoned hall, damp underground, tension riser
Stingers — violin stab, orchestral hit, metal screech, deep boom, reverse hit
Creatures — guttural growl, raspy breathing, distant screech, wet slither, skittering claws
Environment — slow door creak, distant slam, floorboard, dragging chains, rattling window
Human — overlapping whispers, distant child laugh, muffled scream, sharp gasp
Objects — blade on stone, shattering glass, dying music box
Body — accelerating heartbeat, panicked breathing, bone crack

Format
30 × WAV, 44.1 kHz / 16-bit stereo, uncompressed · 20.7 MB · instant download
Every file measured below -0.3 dB true peak after a game engine's import re-encode — no clipping.
Manifest included with every file, description and length.

Licence
Royalty-free for commercial and personal use. No attribution required, no per-project fees, no expiry. You may not resell or redistribute the sound files themselves as a pack or library.

Save on the set
All twelve packs, 300 sounds, in one purchase — Complete Collection. Or hear 30 of them free first: Free Sampler.