The Doors are particually known for their haunting music and Morrison's spooky lyrics. The fact that Jim Morrison eventually died at a young age, in mysterious circumstances, only adds to the creepy atmosphere of many of their songs.
- "The Unknown Soldier" where halfway the song a soldier is shot by a firing squad. The entire song calls up images of soldiers dying in battle, while "television children are fed". A thinly disguised jab at the Vietnam War, which was televised for generations of people to be scarred by the images.
- "The End". Singing about impending doom is already scary in itself, but near the end Morrison sings about killing his father, raping his mother, whereupon he screams in agony. After this parental murder the lyrics come back one more final time, before Morrison concludes the song with a haunting moan: "This is the eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeend!"
- "When The Music's Over"
. Morrison singing in a disturbingly outstretched song about the moment when "the music is over". The end is especially frightening when he shouts that "music is your only friend... until the end", whereupon the entire world seems to die along with him.
- "People Are Strange", where Morrison sings about "faces coming out of the rain".
- "Five To One": "No one here gets out here alive...."
- "Moonlight Drive", where the narrator invites his lover to take a swim in the ocean at night so he can commit a murder-suicide.
- The bizarre and disturbing imagery of "Not To Touch The Earth".
- "Strange days have found us, strange days have tracked us down..."
- "Horse Latitudes".Basically, Jim Morrison screaming terrible lyrics for a minute and a half while his bandmates howl like banshees the entire time.
- "Riders On The Storm: "Into this life we're born / into this world we're thrown (...) like an actor all alone (...) there's a killer on the road / his brain is squirming like a toad"
- If you listen carefully, you'll notice a quietly mixed whispered backing vocal throughout the song that seems to also be done by Jim Morrison. Every single line of the song is whispered in unison with the lead vocals. It sort of adds to the eerie mood, especially because you can listen to the song multiple times and not realize it's there.
- "The Spy", which could be the theme song for any Stalker with a Crush.
