Looking for Halloween tunes but already maxed out on your annual “Thriller” allowance? Have no fear (or maybe just a little fear): Grateful Dead HQ has shared a playlist of eerie live jams, Halloween show highlights, and menacing improvisations dubbed “Dead Trip or Treat” to soundtrack your All Hallows Eve festivities.

The 22-track, 3.5-hour “Dead Trip or Treat” playlist features choice versions of thematically appropriate songs from throughout the Grateful Dead’s decades-long live archive including ghoulish covers like “Werewolves of London” and “Death Don’t Have No Mercy”, gloomy and mysterious Dead jams like “St. Stephen”/”The Eleven” and “The Other One”, demonically titled originals like “Hell in a Bucket” and “Friend of the Devil”, and various supernatural Drums/Space segments. The playlist also includes a handful of tracks from Halloween 1971 (a.k.a. Dick’s Pick’s Vol. 2) including the Columbus, OHs performance’s 23-minute “Dark Star”.

Click below to view the full track listing for the Halloween 2025 Grateful Dead playlist. Listen to the new Grateful Dead “Trip or Treat” playlist on your preferred platform here or stream it via the Spotify player below.

Grateful Dead – “Dead Trip or Treat” Playlist – Track Listing

  1. Hell in a Bucket – Live at Knickerbocker Arena, Albany, NY, March 1990
  2. Werewolves of London – Live at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO 7/8/78
  3. Althea – Live at Hartford Civic Center, October 14, 1983
  4. Friend of the Devil – Live at Stanley Theater, September 27, 1972
  5. Dark Star – Live in Columbus, OH, October 31, 1971
  6. Sugar Magnolia – Live in Columbus, OH, October 31, 1971
  7. St. Stephen – Live in Columbus, OH, October 31, 1971
  8. Not Fade Away (1) – Live in Columbus, OH, October 31, 1971
  9. Goin’ down the Road Feeling Bad – Live in Columbus, OH, October 31, 1971
  10. Not Fade Away (2) – Live in Columbus, OH, October 31, 1971
  11. St. Stephen – Live at Fillmore West February 28, 1969
  12. The Eleven – Live at the Fillmore West, February 28, 1969
  13. Death Don’t Have No Mercy – Live at Fillmore West February 28, 1969
  14. Drums (2) – Live at Oakland Auditorium Arena, December 26, 1979
  15. Jam 2 – Live at Oakland Auditorium Arena, December 26, 1979
  16. Rhythm Devils – Live at JFK Stadium, Philadelphia, PA, July 7, 1989
  17. Space – Live at JFK Stadium, Philadelphia, PA, July 7, 1989
  18. Space – Live at Civic Arena, Pittsburgh, PA, April 2, 1989
  19. The Other One – Live at City Hall, Newcastle, England 4/11/1972
  20. Drums – Live at Fillmore East, February 11, 1969
  21. Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks) – Live at Fillmore East, February 11, 1969
  22. Feedback – Live at Fillmore East, February 11, 1969
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