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When you welcome the undead, don’t forget the Martha Stewart cupcakes.

After the costume, sprucing up—or down—the domicile is a must for celebrating All Hallows’ Eve. The buzz for “halloween decorations” of all sorts have risen 163% in the past 30 days. In a testimony to the celebration’s growing power of darkness, searches are a quarter higher compared to last year.

It’s not too late to learn the dark arts of interior decorating. Check out these top 13 ways to make your home an unholy terror.  

1. Halloween pumpkin. Would-be gourd carvers have been taking their duties seriously, as they look up designs and stencil patterns to make true art.
2. Martha Stewart Halloween. The domestic diva provides genteel inspiration for every petrifying occasion.
3. Halloween Critters. “Bats,” “black cats,” and “spiders,” oh my… Every haunted hearth should have a hallowed pet, and bats lead in the Buzz pecking order.
4. Halloween props. Doing up the homestead proper means special effects. Skeleton chandelier, anyone?
5. Halloween Sounds. Decorators know good design must stimulate all the senses, and nothing screams the holiday better than a blood-curdling shriek… over and over and over…
6. Halloween Lights. Lighting sets the mood, whether for romance or fear.
7. Halloween Skeleton. The formalwear for spirits, who don this familiar garb when they visit the living.
8. Halloween Tombstones. Make guests relax by providing them a final resting place—personalized, of course.
9. Halloween Table Decorations. A good spread of “halloween cakes,” “treats,” and “cookies” deserve a good setting.
10. Halloween Hangman. Nothing like having the middleman between life and death as a house guest.
11. Halloween Inflatables. Get elaborate with pumped-up hearses, giant spiders, even an instant graveyard.
12. Halloween Glow-in-the-Dark. Nightfall is the whole point of Halloween, so find decorations that stand out during these darkest hours.
13. Halloween Hanging Decorations. Don’t look behind you… look up. Hangmen, bats, ghosts, skeleton brides… frightful decoration truly comes from all directions.