Home transformed into a spooky site

Number 25 Dalefield Drive in Telford is no ordinary house. With a graveyard in its front garden and a coffin in the dining room it looks more like the home of the Addams family than the Graham family.

The house of horrors in Admaston has been transformed by Halloween fanatic, Paul Graham, into a spooky mansion and it is not just decorations - he has horror themed music playing out of the windows.

The 39-year-old said Halloween in his house was bigger than Christmas when it came to decorations.

The dad of two - Ruby, five, and Joshua, eight - said he has spent days putting it all together with his wife, Sharon.

"The whole house looks like a haunted mansion and the front garden is done like a graveyard," he said. "We also have a CD playing haunting music out the windows so if you are walking past you can hear it and it attracts quite a lot of attention.

"The tunes are of footsteps, creaking floor boards, girls screaming and an electric chair so it's all very scary, especially at night.

"Inside we have it looking like an old castle and I have had a coffin delivered for the dining room so it can be Dracula's resting place."

Mr Graham added he kept up the tradition by adding to the display every Halloween.

"Each year we go a little more over the top but we do it for the children, although I do enjoy it myself," he added.

"I do a bit for Christmas too. I had a snow machine in my garden last year, but the house is always more decorated around Halloween.

"We get a lot of children coming around trick or treating and when the door opens we have a butler standing there.

"He works off a sensor and it's a lot of fun.

"There are also a lot of generally creepy things hanging around the house like big spiders and fake barbed wire."

Mr Graham said: "We see people walking past and just stopping to look and they always say they love it, and the neighbours do too."

Mr Graham said this year he would either be dressing up as Frankenstein or a funeral director and he would be handing out sweets and chocolate to brave trick and treaters who arrive at his door.

All around the region people are preparing for Halloween tomorrow and not to be outspooked, staff at The George and Dragon pub in Much Wenlock are trying to scare the ghost in their building into making a Halloween appearance.

More than 40 children took part in some spooky fun at the Bobl Bach holiday club in Llanfyllin.

And dozens of children from The Wheatland pony club, Much Wenlock, staged a Halloween party at Kingswood Equestrian Centre and got up to all kinds of fiendish fun including a game of musical pumpkins and a witches hat race.

By Jason Lavan