Mad Ghoul Radio

Robert Pastor

Welcome to Mad Ghoul Radio! This is where eerie electronic beats collide with the spine-chilling echoes of horror cinema. A space for music lovers, film fanatics, and anyone drawn to the darker side of life. With a collection of over 5000 records, 4000 CDs, and 7 terabytes of music files, you'll find everything from electronic and industrial, to library music, soundtracks, metal, dance beats, and jazz. Expect album reviews, deep dives into obscure tracks, and discussions about the music that deserves more attention. On the film side — it’s pure horror obsession. With a collection of over 6000 films, you’ll get in-depth reviews, recommendations, and passionate debates about the best (and worst) the genre has to offer. Beyond music and movies, this page is fueled by a love for Halloween, ghost hunting, dark tourism, vinyl collecting, and even the occasional conversation about wine, Scotch, and life as a hospital CEO. Mad Ghoul Radio is also part of the Prescribed Films Podcast Network (PFPN) — a community dedicated to supporting independent creators and horror fans everywhere. Join us! Let's celebrate the music, the movies, and the madness together.

  1. Oct 21

    Season 03 - Episode 22 - October Transmission 02 - Frequencies for the Dead (Macabre Style)

    Halloween is here, and Mad Ghoul Radio is taking a different approach this time around. Frequencies for the Dead is a continuous Halloween mix of horror film scores, ominous drones, strange electronic textures, and unsettling soundscapes. No interruptions, no unnecessary chatter. Just a carefully assembled collection of sounds designed to make your surroundings a little less comfortable. Whether you're handing out candy to trick-or-treaters, setting up an elaborate Halloween display, hosting a party, or just sitting in a dark room with the lights turned down, consider this your soundtrack for the evening. Drawing from the stranger corners of horror cinema, experimental electronics, and atmospheric sound design, this mix favors creeping tension over cheap jump scares. Some sounds may be familiar. Others might leave you wondering exactly what you've been listening to. Put it on, turn it up, and let it run. Mad Ghoul Radio presents Frequencies for the Dead (Macabre Style). Your Halloween has a new soundtrack.

    Season 03 - Episode 22 - October Transmission 02 - Frequencies for the Dead (Macabre Style)

  2. Oct 16

    Season 03 - Episode 21 - October Transmission 01

    October has arrived, and the dead have apparently taken over the turntables. Mad Ghoul Radio returns with a Halloween-season broadcast filled with strange electronic transmissions, gothic rock, vintage horror soundtracks, and a few records that have become permanent fixtures in my October listening rotation. We kick things off with some wonderfully unsettling electronics before digging into the music that always takes me back to autumn in Michigan. There's something about falling leaves, cold nights, old horror movies, and certain records that just belongs together. And yes, a few familiar Halloween favorites make their return. Some traditions are worth keeping. We also spend some time exploring the fascinating world of production library music and its connection to George A. Romero's 1968 classic Night of the Living Dead. I'll be sharing a couple of selections from the film's soundtrack and talking about how a collection of preexisting recordings helped create one of the most recognizable soundscapes in horror history. Elsewhere, we're talking haunted attractions, including my friend Clint Tacy's Haunting in the Hills, Gruesome Gifts, and the all-new Traincar of Terror. I'll also have details about the free October 24th screening of Night of the Living Dead that I'm hosting at the Backus Community Center in International Falls, Minnesota. Plus, I'll tell you about my recent guest appearance on the I Like It Spooky Podcast, where we spent some quality time discussing Dario Argento's Suspiria. And, as always, we'll close things out with something from the world of Nine Inch Nails, this time with a particularly disturbing connection to one of the great psychological thrillers of the 1990s. It's a little nostalgic, a little strange, occasionally loud, and exactly the kind of Halloween radio show I love putting together. Turn it up, dim the lights, and enjoy the season.

    Season 03 - Episode 21 - October Transmission 01

  3. Sep 9

    Season 03 - Episode 20 - Detroit Residue

    Season 03 - Episode 20 - Detroit Residue Fresh off a trip to Detroit, DJ Robb comes back to the basement with a little concert noise still stuck in his head. Episode 20 starts with Rob Zombie, but not where most people would expect. Robb goes back to the earliest days of White Zombie, before the major-label records, before MTV, and before the sound most people associate with the band had fully formed. From there, the episode moves through industrial rock, dark electronic music, soundtrack cuts, strange late-night grooves, and a few records pulled straight from the shelves. There’s also some talk about Marilyn Manson’s current live show, the surprise of seeing The HU in person, and why some artists still matter decades after you first heard them. The rest of the set gets darker, dirtier, and more mechanical as the night goes on. Streetlights. Warehouses. Old records. Detroit residue. And, as always, the basement closes with Nine Inch Nails.

    Season 03 - Episode 20 - Detroit Residue

  4. Aug 26

    Season 03 - Episode 19 - Somewhere After Midnight

    Episode 19 finds Mad Ghoul Radio back in freeform mode, drifting through one of those late-night sets where the records start making their own decisions. We begin in the strange, oppressive world of an obscure 1980's horror score before moving into post-punk, goth, psychedelic rock, archival discoveries, instrumental surf, spy music, haunted exotica, and downtempo electronics. There are a few deep cuts, a few recent vinyl pickups, some long-buried material, and plenty of music that sounds like it belongs to a movie that never existed. No strict theme this time. Just a dark room, a stack of records, and a signal getting stranger as the night goes on. Somewhere between a horror soundtrack, a crooked lounge, and a bad decision after midnight!

    Season 03 - Episode 19 - Somewhere After Midnight

  5. Aug 21

    Season 03 - Episode 18 - Psych Ward Soundscapes (Macabre Mix)

    This episode of Mad Ghoul Macabre is not a traditional horror mix. Psych Ward Soundscapes takes a much stranger route — a disorienting trip through the empty corridors of an abandoned mental institution, built from horror film scores, psychiatric dialogue, trailers, environmental recordings, early electronic music, and heavily manipulated tape. Expect fluorescent hum, distant machinery, locked doors, therapy sessions, rolling carts, voices bleeding through walls, and music that often feels more like a recovered experiment than a song. A large part of this episode dives into musique concrète and early tape composition — artists cutting, looping, reversing, stretching, and physically manipulating recorded sound decades before sampling became commonplace. Tod Dockstader, Pierre Schaeffer, Bernard Parmegiani, Stockhausen, Xenakis, Delia Derbyshire, and others become part of the architecture of the ward, alongside cues and voices pulled from films centered on institutions, confinement, treatment, and psychological collapse. This one is deliberately unconventional. There are long stretches without rhythm. Sounds appear, disappear, repeat, and deteriorate. Voices surface where they shouldn't. Some recordings feel clinical. Others feel damaged. At times, it may be difficult to tell where the movie dialogue ends and the music begins. That is the point. Think less playlist. More recovered reel-to-reel tape discovered in a locked room at the end of a condemned hospital wing. Turn the lights down...Put on headphones....And whatever you hear coming from the room next door… Don't answer it! #madghoulradio #thepfpn

    Season 03 - Episode 18 - Psych Ward Soundscapes (Macabre Mix)

  6. Aug 11

    Season 03 - Episode 17 - The Signal is Still Alive!

    Season 03, Episode 17 finds Mad Ghoul Radio returning to the basement after a difficult stretch, with an episode built around memory, loss, discovery, and the strange comfort of music that seems to exist somewhere outside of time. DJ Robb talks briefly about the unreleased Episode 16, the launch of the new Mad Ghoul Sessions interview series, the arrival of a new show intro from horror icon Danielle Harris, and the slow construction of a permanent Mad Ghoul Radio studio. From there, the episode moves through hypnotic world music, psychedelic grooves, unsettling electronic sounds, cinematic instrumentals, and music that feels equally at home in a ritual, a nightmare, or a late-night drive. There are new discoveries, a look at an upcoming release from Phantom Lightkeeper, and several moments dedicated to artists and horror figures we’ve recently lost, including a personal tribute to Phantasm legend Reggie Bannister. It’s also one of the more personal episodes of Mad Ghoul Radio. Robb reflects on losing his sister and father, the long gaps between recent shows, and the listeners who continued to stick around through all of it. But this isn’t an episode about stopping. It’s about finding the signal again, getting inspired, rebuilding the studio, and remembering why Mad Ghoul Radio existed in the first place: to dig through the stacks, find something strange, and pass it along. The night eventually winds down the way it should—with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross guiding the signal back into the dark.

    Season 03 - Episode 17 - The Signal is Still Alive!

  7. Aug 1 ·  Bonus

    The Mad Ghoul Sessions 001 - Justin Beahm

    Welcome to the very first installment of The Mad Ghoul Sessions, a new Mad Ghoul Radio series featuring long-form conversations with the filmmakers, musicians, writers, collectors, haunters and creative minds who shape the horror community and preserve its history. In this first installment, I sit down with filmmaker, journalist, author, podcaster and Phantom Lightkeeper musician Justin Beahm. Justin has spent his career digging beneath the surface of the films we love—preserving the voices of actors, filmmakers, effects artists and craftspeople through his work with Reverend Entertainment. We talk horror history, physical media, collecting, disappearing roadside attractions, Roadside Memories, and the responsibility that comes with documenting stories before they vanish. Then the conversation moves somewhere much more personal. Justin takes us inside the making of the new Phantom Lightkeeper album, Four Days at the Precipice. The record began during four isolated days at a remote cabin while he was experiencing a serious health condition. After returning home, undergoing emergency surgery and facing his own mortality, Justin went back to those recordings and finished one of the most personal works of his career. The episode also opens with “Francesca Woodman’s Camera,” my favorite track from the new Phantom Lightkeeper album, Four Days at the Precipice—a haunted, slow-burning piece filled with atmosphere, distortion and more than a few textures that sent my Nine Inch Nails–obsessed brain into overdrive. And don't worry, this isn’t a standard press interview. It’s two friends talking about horror, music, art, grief, survival, memory and the strange need some of us have to save the things we love before they disappear. Turn down the lights. Welcome to The Mad Ghoul Sessions.

    The Mad Ghoul Sessions 001 - Justin Beahm

  8. Jul 11

    Season 03 - Episode 15 - Dead By Dawn (Macabre Mix)

    No host. No commentary. No survivors. This edition of Mad Ghoul Macabre drops straight into the blood-soaked world of The Evil Dead and Evil Dead II—a full-length mix built from score cues, dialogue fragments, sound design, Deadite chaos, and enough cabin-in-the-woods madness to wake something buried under the floorboards. This is the sound of tape hiss, cellar doors, possessed forests, chainsaws, shotguns, and ancient words that should never be read aloud. Turn it up. Keep the lights low. And whatever starts scratching at the window, do not let it in. #madghoulradio #thepfpn

    Season 03 - Episode 15 - Dead By Dawn (Macabre Mix)
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Welcome to Mad Ghoul Radio! This is where eerie electronic beats collide with the spine-chilling echoes of horror cinema. A space for music lovers, film fanatics, and anyone drawn to the darker side of life. With a collection of over 5000 records, 4000 CDs, and 7 terabytes of music files, you'll find everything from electronic and industrial, to library music, soundtracks, metal, dance beats, and jazz. Expect album reviews, deep dives into obscure tracks, and discussions about the music that deserves more attention. On the film side — it’s pure horror obsession. With a collection of over 6000 films, you’ll get in-depth reviews, recommendations, and passionate debates about the best (and worst) the genre has to offer. Beyond music and movies, this page is fueled by a love for Halloween, ghost hunting, dark tourism, vinyl collecting, and even the occasional conversation about wine, Scotch, and life as a hospital CEO. Mad Ghoul Radio is also part of the Prescribed Films Podcast Network (PFPN) — a community dedicated to supporting independent creators and horror fans everywhere. Join us! Let's celebrate the music, the movies, and the madness together.

Information

  • Creator
    Robert Pastor
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    55
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Robert Pastor
  • Show Website
    Mad Ghoul Radio

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