This needs a little background information to put this in the proper perspective. For the last 10+ years, my wife and I have created a Halloween Garden in our front yard for the neighborhood. Each year we add something new (and sometimes retired items). We do have limited real estate to work with. One year we decided to spend Halloween at a campground and did not put up the garden. When we returned home, we almost had the pitch fork and torch mob scene.
The garden started out "cutesy", but soon evolved to scary. We still have a few cutesy things for the little ones, but mostly it gets scary (no chainsaws or bloody knives). A lot of skeletons, witches, zombies, spiders, bats and ghosts; a lot of witch move and talk.
Anyway, this year we ran out of time to set up everything we had planned. It rained for the two days before Halloween, so we had to set the whole thing up on Halloween, with no help, because all the rest of the family was either in school or working. We were missing about 6 displays, including a full scale swamp house and pier made of cardboard (which has become our center piece. I will try to find picture from last year and post it here. This year we still had over 70 very happily scared kids and about 150 adults taking pictures. I always dress as a werewolf, with a Dracula cape and a snake staff. The staff is magic (of course) and controls the various electronic actors. When it touches them, they come to life.
The first photo is the overall view from the yard across the street. The 2nd photo is the entrance to the Less Than Heavenly Garden.