Welcome to the week of preparations for a bone-chilling Halloween evening. Are you ready to transition yourself into a creepy being? It’s not even necessary to get dressed up into a costume, thanks to great special effects possible via various photo-editing programs and applications.

Check out some of the new, fantastic phantasmic photomanipulations below. Each graphic is based upon a real photograph, and has been transformed into a ghastly or frightening image. Head to the image source by clicking on the graphic itself.

Whether you call it by it’s American name, Halloween, or All Hallow’s Eve, or Samhain, the upcoming night of October 31st is bound to be a spooky one.