Lawrence Lund's Halloween page - Lawrence Lund worked with others on many of these projects, each authors contributions are noted on each prop page.

• Trash Can Trauma (c) - Character pops up out of trashcan. Advanced Project.
• Mail box trauma- mailbox pops open and hand comes out. Advanced Project.
• Jacobs Ladder - Large arcing electrical spark. Advanced Project.
• The Can - a character pops up out of trashcan. Advanced Project.
• Bottomless Pit - extensive illustrated instructions for box with mirrors to give effect of bottomless pit.
• The Spider - large static spider on rooftop.
• Witch and Cauldron - moving witches stirring a large cauldron lawn prop.
• Payback Pumpkin - parts list and diagram for "alarm"ing pumpkin
• How to build a PVC pneumatic cylinder - illustrated instructions for air-powered cylinder. Advanced Project.
• Build A Creature - basic instructions for static plywood creature.
• Leaping Loafer - extensive illustrated instructions for pop-up corpse. Advanced Project
• Screen Door Closure - illustrated instructions for converting a screen door closer into pneumatic cylinder. Advanced Project.
• Many More

Adams Halloween Props by Adam Drendel

• Endless Hallway
• Head On A Table
• Head In A Box
• Sliding Picture
• Prop Control
• Spinning Floor
• Lightning Simulator

Earthsands Halloween Props by Jerry Seiler

• Flying Crank Ghost
• Pneumatic Fred
• Leaning Larry
• Popup Ghost
• Rising Skeleton
• Strobe Ghost
• Pumpkin Tree
• Fire Monster
• Spinning Walkthrough Tunnel
• Candlesticks - illustrated instruction for PVC flicker-bulb holders 
• Timer Project
• Many More

The MonsterMaze By Mike Bruner

• Alien in a Barrel - illustrated instructions for moving alien head mounted in a barrel. (includes video of prop in action!)
• Ceiling Crawler - illustrated construction example of lightweight spray-foam over PVC character.
• Poison Gas Mutant - extensive illustrated instructions 
• Homemade Signs - extensive illustrated instructions for designing and printing signs.
• Oscillating Fan Werewolf - extensive illustrated instructions for creating mask that moves back and forth.  (includes video of prop in action!)
• Werewolf with Red Eyes - illustrated instructions for moving werewolf.
• Skeleton in a square cage -
• Friendly Frank - illustrated instructions for adapting a "groundbreaker" to life-size
• Alien Pops prop - illustrated instructions for foil covered alien
• Nicodemus - Lifesize static prop with PVC frame
• Also - moving Alien Egg, Axe Murderer, Psycho Sickel 
• Lifesize Killer Klown
• Carcass Klown (Glowing Evil Dwarf Killer Klown)
• Bruner Boy (Dwarf size Animatronic Killer Klown)
• 13 hour clock
• Mini-Maze - illustrated instructions for giant wall-mounted maze for the kids.
• Rules Reaper - illustrated instructions for life-size sign-holder
• Skull Fountain - illustrated instructions for fountain using skull and vase
• Drop Panels - illustrated instructions for fake panel that drops away
• Many More

Brent Ross of DeviousConcoctions

• Candle Stick - illustrated instructions for attaching a lamp to a skull. By Brent Ross.
• Coffin (Full) - extensive illustrated instructions for building a full-size coffin. Original by Scott N., this one by Brent Ross.
• Neck Stump - illustrated instructions for creating a gurgling neck stump. By Brent Ross
• Skeletal Organist - illustrations and parts list for creating full-size seated organist. By Brent Ross.
• Self-Rocking chair
• Stump Jumper - illustrated instructions for popup inside of a fake tree-stump
• Talking Tombstone how-to
• Many More

TwistedVisions by Don

• 6 foot tall pneumatic vampire
• Mummy - illustrated instructions for building a pop-up mummy in a box.
• Candle Flicker
• Death Chair - illustrated instructions for building full size static atmospheric chair.
• Jason
• Light Box
• Foam Hands - illustrated instructions for creating full-size monster hands.
• Monster
• Airbrush make-up
• Bob (animatronic Seated Skeleton) - extensive illustrated instructions on building a seated skeleton with a radio-controlled moving skull
• Zombie - illustrated instructions for pop-up life size figure in a coffin.
• Spooky Tombstones - illustrated instructions for carving foam tombstones to make exotic designs.

Ghosts Of Halloween By Adam Tourkow

• Donation Box
• Ultimate Fog Chiller
• Stone Entrance
• Poka-dot wall
• Extended Arms and Legs
• Rot Iron Fence
• Cheese-cloth Ghosts
• Tombstones
• Grave Coffin
• Pallet Walkway

Lothars Lair by Dave Alma

• Tombstones
• Cemetary Gates
• Mausoleum
• Gate Keeper
• Clear Skull Sconce
• Thrifty Sconce
• FCG Hands
• and more!

Wolfstone by Dennis Griesser

• magic shrub
• foam-cutting tools
• tombstones
• thunder and lightning
• thunder and lightning on demand
• giant spider
• Spider spitter
• giant web
• cemetary fence
• pop-up skeleton
• scream box
• recordable sound box
• trigger relay
• FCG stand
• cast plaster skulls
• dimmer boxes and stake lights
• pumpkin popup
• fence columns
• Terror Tone with remote volume control
• mad monk
• modified Boris
• ginger bats
• gnarled finger pretzels
• witch centerpiece
• tiny Halloween town
• cast bat plaque
• modified gargoyles
• web-making machine
• Jeep From Hell
• line voltage switch
• Gemmy fogger control
• skull fountain and fake blood
• Spooky clock
• Spider spitter 2
• Power sequencer
• Air switch
• Sound-To-Servo Driver
• Talking Points
• Activist Electric Tombstones
• Crate Beast
• Harbingers: signs of things to come
• Spooky Clock II
• lightning with Diversitronics strobes
• Slide Trombone Of Doom
• PIR sensor
• Cheap Lightning Box
• Mini Slave Strobe
• What Lurks In The Dark?
• singing pumpkin guts
• multichannel audio player

Horrordome by Jerry

• THE CREEP FENCE - Keep those pesky intruders out, while giving your haunt a touch of class (this fence give a great feel of entrapment, it will really finish off your haunt)
• GIANT 3' SPIDER AND 6' WEB - Learn how to make this giant 6 foot spider web and this giant 3 foot spider that spins webs and has glowing red eyes (this is truly a stunning prop)
• RAMPAGING RAT OR CAT - Learn how to turn a rubber rat, cat or any other rubber creature into a rampaging monster
• THE TRANSFORMATION BOX - Learn how to turn a head into a skull right before your very eyes. This Prop is a must for any laboratory or dungeon (works with any two objects)
• MAKE UP TIPS - HOLLYWOOD STYLE - Learn some make up tips from the MASTER
• THE RAT IN A CAN - Create a monster Rat that jumps out of an old Garbage can
• HORROR RIBS - Create Professional Horror Ribs for a Halloween Costume or for a Horror Prop
• THE FLYING CRANK GHOST - She moves, she flies, she has glowing blue eyes
• REMOTE CONTROLLED SPIDER - Create a 1 foot Spider that darts around like lightning
• BOTTOMLESS PIT - Beware of the Creature that dwells in The Bottomless Pit
• TRASH CAN TRAUMA(c) - This trash takes it self out!
• SPIDER VICTIM - Assemble him, dress him and then hang him ! (works great with the 3-foot spider)
• VAMPIRE BLOOD - Inexpensive and Tasty
• FOLLOWING FACES - They follow you around just like your childhood pet bat, only you won't have to feed them. (Your friends will be amazed, terrified and maybe even disgusted)
• MOTOR HEAD - What's with this guy, What's he looking for, what does he want and why is he here!
• SPIDER WEB SPINNER - Now spin webs just as they do in your favorite horror movies (watch as your visitors get caught up in what looks, feels and acts like real spider webs.)
• THE ARMY OF DARKNESS - They just stand there , waiting , waiting for their next victim

Deathlord.Net by the Deathlord

• Crypt Keeper - extensive illustrated instructions for full size animated prop.
• Death Lord Dummy - extensive instructions for making a posable dummy prop.
• Grand Entrance - Extensive illustrated instructions for building large haunt entrance.
• Jacobs Ladder - Large arcing electrical spark. Advanced Project.
• Rotting Corpse - illustrated instructions for converting cheap skeleton to rotting corpse.
• Spiderweb Candelabra - extensive illustrated instructions for adapting a candelabra to electricity.
• Trash Can Trauma(c) - extensive illustrated instructions for building popup character prop. Advanced project. original by Carl Cheta
• Elvira The Flying Ghost - extensive instructions
• Exhumed corpses - illustrated instructions for making a blow-mold skeleton look more convincing
• Aerial Executioner
• Air Trigger (now with air-line muffler)
• Motion Trigger How-to
• Exorcist pop-up How-to
• Feeding Frenzy animated how-to
• Wall Crawler (lightweight) how-to
• Electrocution - illustrated instructions for lifelike electric chair
• Candy Cauldron
• Coffin Coronary
• Death Chair
• Lacerated Larry
• Rotting Corpse
• $20 air cannon how-to
• and More!
  

Wicked Stone Halloween by Joe Stone

• Computer-Controlled Coffin
• The Undertaker
• Demon Wall Sconce
• Tombstones
• The Grave Jumper
• Fog Chillers
• Flying Crank Ghost
• Cemetery Fence
• Tarantula Bucky
• Haunt Mechanics
• Haunt Microcontrollers
• Crate Beast
• Barrely Alive!
• Air Cannon
• Web Spinners
• Bad Breath
• Thrash 'n Burn Electric Chair
• Drawing Board (Current Projects)

FrightFX by Tom Johnson

• The Bridge - Need a rickety old bridge in a hurry? Well this one can be made from an old pallet.
• Cage With Skeleton Child - A small skeleton child trapped in a hanging cage for all to see.
• Coffin - A simple wooden coffin for vampire housing and your good old zombies.
• The Control Box - A control box used for dimming lights for special effects.
• Entrance Columns - These are a simple version of the original entrance column for a cemetery fence.
• Entry Door - Do you have a haunt that could use sprucing up, then this is for you.
• The Fireplace - If you need to spruce up an old room, then you'll want to build one of these.
• Floating Candelabra - This candelabra seems to float up and down magically on its own.
• Flying Books - Make books seem to fly around the room all by themselves!
• Gravestones - Life-size gravestones built from Styrofoam and other household products. (Moonlit project)
• Graveyard Fence - The original cemetery fence with pictures courtesy of Screamin' Scott.
• The Hangman - How to hang a real person and make them look like they are hung by the neck.
• Haunted Books - Dancing books! (This is an amazing effect from Christopher Silvia a.k.a. Isolated looney).
• Haunted Clock - Are you looking for a way to make the time magically change to midnight?
• Hellfire - Have a place that needs a fire effect? This effect makes an area flicker as if a fire is nearby.
• The Pillars - The most realistic looking pillars made from fiberglass roofing and cardboard pouring tubes.
• Pond Popper - Got a pond or other water source you want to haunt, then this guy should live there.
• Pop-Out Monster - A simple pop-out monster based on an air compressor, but made with PVC.
• Rat Eyes - Instructions on how to make totally random blinking rats eyes.
• The Soul Snatcher - Instructions on how to make a person fly down a wire as a gargoyle.
• Talking Douglas Fir - How to make the Talking Douglas Fir trees with no input jack say what you want them to!
• Thunder & Lightning - The look of real lightning made from a circuit and spotlights.
• Zombie Hands - Want realistic zombie hands for your creatures, then follow these easy steps.

OurHaunt.Com By Casey Paquet

• Toe-Pincher Coffin
• Skeleton Cage
• Curved-Top Casket 
• Buried Alive Coffin.
• Bucky Lid
• and more!

ImaginEERIEing by Neph

• Magic Mirror how-to
• Tombstones how-to
• Spirits In The Trees how-to
• Attic Apparations how-to
• Piratical Pumpkin how-to

Matt’s Spooky Halloween Page by Matthew Ponke

• Electric Chair
• Fog Chiller
• Cemetery Fence
• Tombstones
• Thunder & Lightning
• Flying Crank Ghost
• Mausoleum
• Animated Coffin

Simulated Reality Systems By Edwin Wise (select "haunting" from menu)

• Faces, peeled
• Arm, lifelike
• Leg Dissection
• Parts: Finger, Brain, Heart
• Dolls made Creepy
• Guts
• Head, decapitated
• Head Lifecast
• Bone Aging
• Corpse, Basic
• Corpse, Wet and Nasty
• Tombstones
• Alligator Attack
• and more!

Haunted Yards By Jeff Barry

• a Simple Pop-up,
• an Air Cannon,
• an Air Blaster,
• a Build a Corpse,
• a Pneumatic Web Shooter,
• a Canvas Brick Wall Façade
• and more!

Haunt Warehouse By Gary

• Barrel Pop-Up
• Bats
• Coffin
• Flaming Cauldrons
• Fog Chiller
• Ghost
• Grave Digger
• Grave Jumpers
• Gravestones
• Graveyard Fence
• Pneumatic Piston
• Spiders
• Skeleton

SpyderWood by John Nilsen

• Leer (animated skeleton/gravestone)
• Reindeer Wolf (wolf made from animated reindeer)
• Marshall (lifesized zombie)
• Spot (giant spider)
• and more!

A LissProductions Halloween by John Liss

• Build your own Cemetery Fence
• Halloween Epitaphs
• Dancing Ghost Ring
• Build your own Halloween Coffin with a sheet of plywood
• Build your own Halloween Grave Stones
• Corpsification of a Halloween Bluckie Skeleton
• The Halloween Axworthy Flying Ghost
• and more!

Garage Of Evil By Steve O'Conner (note: requires login)

• Drop Panel 3-Axis Skull Columns
• Gaslight Flicker Circuit
• Grave Popper
• Let there be light
• Programming a Prop Controller
• Toe Pincher Coffin
• Trash Can Chiller
• Tsantsa: the finishing touches
• Creating Dark Ambient Sounds

There are enough pages detailing design modifications and how-to's for Doug Ferguson's Flying Crank Ghost (FCG) that it deserves its own section

There are enough pages detailing the construction and design of tombstones that they deserve their own section

Haunt Walkthroughs

Sites that have a nice walkthrough of their haunt. This is for actual walkthroughs (or guided tours) not just a collection of photos of the haunt. Very useful for ideas.

Useful information for the Do-It-Yourselfer