Pure Horror

Also released by Beyond Records - and just in time for the Halloween - is a compilation called "Pure Horror".  The album includes selected tracks from the three albums mentioned above, as well as James Newton Howard's score to A Stir of Echoes, Carter Burwell's score to Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, and one track from The Blair Witch Project.  Howard's stuff stands out on the album in such a way to completely overshadow the other cues.  If you want a sampling from all the scores mentioned, then getting this is definitely one option.  But it would probably just be easier to buy A Stir of Echoes - you'd probably enjoy it more.  As I mentioned, there is one cue from The Blair Witch Project.  Given that the only release from that film was the song album, "The Cellar" is a nice cue that highlights the sound design from that film (it's not really score).  This is definitely one creepy album to put on your CD player, but it's tough to say which would scare you more - the music, or the content.

(from "Beyond Horror")