Is your pumpkin the spookiest in Suffolk? Compare it with our Halloween gallery of creepy carvings

Pumpkins carved by Alison Connors and her family (Image: (c) copyright citizenside.com)

A traditional part of the festival for centuries sees Jack O’ Lanterns carved into ghoulish shapes and faces to shine brightly outside homes and ward off evil spirits.

Picture of a pumpkin carved for Halloween sent in by Neil Jones (Image: Archant)

Nowadays the latter purpose has been superseded by pure entertainment, pumpkin carving often being a family friendly activity.

A pumpkin carved for Halloween (Image: Archant)

Over the half term holiday plenty of people have been gearing up for All Hallow’s Eve by carving their own pumpkins.

Pumpkin carved by Hong Leung (Image: Archant)

See our gallery for a selection of the pumpkin pictures you have sent into us and compare them with yours – who do you think has made the scariest, the most artistic or the most inventive?

Gina and Jamie's pumpkins, sent in by Gina Roberts (Image: Archant)

Here we have a double example from Gina and Jamie – and you can’t get much more Halloween-ey than a witch or a skeleton.

Pumpkins carved by Alison Connors and her family (Image: (c) copyright citizenside.com)

Alison Connors and her family have been very busy creating three pumpkin carvings between them.

Pumpkins carved by Alison Connors and her family (Image: (c) copyright citizenside.com)

As well as the traditional spooky face they have gone for some more modern variations.

Pumpkins carved by Alison Connors and her family (Image: (c) copyright citizenside.com)

You’d associated witches with Halloween, and you might associate bats with witches, so why not take some inspiration from Batman?

My sister carved this amazing image in a Pumpkin yesterday evening. (Image: (c) copyright citizenside.com)

Ms Connors also sent in this picture of a pumpkin depicting a cat sat on a branch looking skyward.

A pumpkin carved by Elliot Lye (Image: Archant)

Elliot Lye sent in this effort, another take on the traditional ghoulish visage.

Picture of a pumpkin carving sent in by Jackie Wynn (Image: Archant)

Then there is this effort sent in by Jackie Wynn, of a spooky-looking castle.

Kevin Bennett's pumpkin (Image: Archant)

Kevin Bennett’s wide-eyed carving has some seriously vicious teeth while Twitter user @ZakMcKrack has carved an image of Breaking Bad’s Heisenberg into his pumpkin.

Twitter user @ZacMcKrack's pumpkin (Image: Archant)

There’s still time to send in your efforts as well. Email us here or tweet us @EADT24 and @IpswichStar24