Halloween is well and truly on the way, with the frightful annual celebration this year falling on Monday October 31.

And besides finding an amazing costume to impress all of your friends with, the most important detail of your Halloween celebrations is definitely carving a scary pumpkin to put on your doorstep!

Here are 11 scary, hilarious, or simply incredible pumpkin designs to give you a little inspiration this year!

1) Try to carve the flesh itself for a creepy yellow design!

2) Give your pumpkin big, scary teeth

3) Go for a pumpkin within a pumpkin!

4) Cut a character into your lantern

5) Go for a cute cat design this year

6) Design something spooky and traditional...

7) Carve two or three extra pumpkins!

8) Why not draw on yours instead of carving it?

9) Or carve a creepy cabin in the woods?

10) Carve some teeny, tiny pumpkins instead

11) Find a way to use the pumpkin's insides... Waste not, want not!

Think you've designed an absolute winner of a pumpkin this year? Send your pictures to emily.chudy@trinitymirror.com or Tweet them to @WhatsOnGWL and we'll add them to a spooky Halloween gallery!

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