One of Scotland’s spookiest Halloween houses is attracting brave visitors from miles around with an array of ghosts, ghouls, mummies, vampires, flying witches… and chess playing skeletons.

Ruth Williamson, 70, and sibling Ian Briars, 56, have spent thousands of pounds adding hundreds of gruesome props for the garden in North Gyle Terrace, in Corstorphine.

It has taken them a month to arrange the property into a Halloween spectacular to spook families on the scariest night of the year.

Visitors are met with a sign reading “No trespassing, we’re tired of hiding the bodies”.

But carer Ruth, who uses the annual display to raise money for a Fife cat rescue centre close to her heart, insisted that everyone is welcome.

Families have already travelled from as far as East Lothian to get a fear

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