Trick-or-treaters in search of sweets face haunted gardens across the UK and Ireland if they dare.
Electrician Ken Carragher creates his Halloween Haunted House in Killiney, Dublin (Brian Lawless/PA)The charity installation, featuring all manner of ghoulish monsters, was expected to attract thousands of revelers (Brian Lawless/PA)Halloween decorations in the garden of a home in Larbert, near Falkirk (Andrew Milligan/Pennsylvania)Hey, hearts! Brave sailors must cross the seven seas to knock on this door in Raynham, Kent (Gareth Fuller/PA)There was no stopping the decorations at the house in Raynham, where a crew of skeleton pirates lay in wait for trick-or-treaters (Garrett Fuller/Pennsylvania)Lavinia Hedges puts the finishing touches to a ‘Nightmare Before Christmas’ themed display raising funds for the charity My Shining Star at her home in Gillingham (Garrett Fuller/PA)The garden was created to welcome trick-or-treaters on Halloween (Garrett Fuller/Pennsylvania)Arachnophobes should definitely avoid this impressively decorated house in Notting Hill, west London (Ben Whitley/Pennsylvania)
And beware, things can get even scarier for those invited indoors.
Nine-year-old Freddie and his sister Darcy at their home in Woodbridge, Suffolk (Joe Giddens/Pennsylvania)Their home has been decorated by dad Laurie Thackeray for Halloween and dubbed ‘Suffolk’s scariest house’ (Joe Giddens/PA)
At Dracula’s home, visitors to Whitby Abbey were treated to a lighting display and production of If These Stones Could Talk.
Lights illuminate the ruins of Whitby Abbey in North Yorkshire to mark Halloween (Danny Lawson/PA)Visitors to the English Heritage site that inspired Bram Stoker’s Dracula can also see a production of If These Stones Could Talk by Time Will Tell Theater Group (Danny Lawson/PA)
The eeriness went up a few notches as night fell and darkness swept the land.
A house decorated for Halloween in Ashford, Kent (Garrett Fuller/Pennsylvania)Celebrities even got in on the act when Jonathan Ross threw his annual Halloween party at his north London home (James Manning/PA)
By james art 
