Saturday 22 July 2023

Join me at the edge of the woods, my darling

Thursday 8 June 2023

And he was never seen again

*Designed for headphones.
**Recommended for fans of hauntology.
Written, produced, performed: the spectre collector
Mastering & design: the spectre collector

Friday 18 November 2022

"Disappear" - the hokey video to the song.

I pulled this hokey video together for the spectre collector song "Disappear". Hope you like it.

Friday 28 October 2022

Disappear (May you) - a curse

Saturday 17 September 2022

The dark park

Get down and get creepy with “The dark park”. It’s toe-tappingly monstrous. It’s hellishly hummable and frighteningly FREE! It’s the 2nd single from the album “MONSTTERS” to be released end of September. You may never walk through a park at night again…

Thursday 1 September 2022

Sleep Walkers

Just realeased - "Sleep Walkers". This is the first single from the album "MONSTTERS", which will be released in late September.

Saturday 6 August 2022

Transported Through Twilight

With his new 6-track album ‘Transported through twilight’, Ron Jon takes us to strange and distant shores by way of the duduk. This ancient double-reeded instrument is made of apricot wood and delivers a sad, warm, beautiful and smooth tone. The duduk is used in these songs to enhance their mystical moods.

Friday 3 June 2022

Friday 27 May 2022

"Old Dark"
I chose this lovely artwork by Louis-Léopold Boilly called "Tartini's Dream" for the album cover. There is something perversely comforting about having the devil play the violin to lull you to sleep and accompany you in your dreams.

Friday 13 May 2022

"Cowboy clown in a meat suit"

This is the first in my series of lunatic lockdown albums! Each week for 5 weeks I’ll be releasing a new album for barely a farthing. This first one has a theme running through it.
Yes, there's a theme running through some of these uncomfortable tracks. I'm sure it's easy enough to figure out.

Friday 6 May 2022

"PARASITES!"

This is the first in my series of lunatic lockdown albums! Each week for 5 weeks I’ll be releasing a new album for barely a farthing. This first one has a theme running through it.

Thursday 29 July 2021

Demons Like Us

*** For these micro-horrors the spectre collector went back to basics. Nothing too tricky, too fancy. Keep them short, sharp and creepy.

Saturday 13 March 2021

Father Fungi

In these two brief new spectral tales, a priest proves to be more just your average father and a dream house suddenly comes on the market.

Sunday 23 August 2020

the stranger wore a pig mask

Friday 14 August 2020

the soft hands of the puppet


Saturday 25 April 2020

Mother Spectre's Cursery Rhymes



These are not sweet rhymes for the kiddies.

There are no jolly dancing pigs here, no cows that jump over moons and certainly no happily-ever-afters.

There is just the dimly lit world of Mother Spectre’s Cursery Rhymes.

The album is out now on Bandcamp!

Monday 30 December 2019

*dolly






"Not all dolls are for children."

Sunday 27 October 2019

Songs of beauty and terror




It’s that lovely time of the year again when the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead are blurred. And to celebrate the spectre collector has a special Halloween treat for you.

From 28 Oct to 2 Nov, 2020 you can listen, stream or download for free the spectre collector’s new Halloween 4 x tracker – ‘Songs of beauty and terror’.

So get in the mood, light the candles and lend an ear to the tastefully disturbing tunes of the spectre collector.


Wednesday 9 October 2019



"Swagman"

Swagman
He stood in the dark corner of my room. Tall and thin, straggly beard, with his pack and bedroll. Smelt like a dog.
When I was a kid, back on the farm, some nights the swagman came to visit.
Told me he hung himself from the big old red gum down by the creek. Wanted to show me where …and how. Silly bugger.
Swagman.

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