This year, my first stop on the annual tour of Halloween events was Xtreme Scream, which takes over Twinlakes Theme Park in Melton Mowbray at night and hosts five terrifying scare mazes and other Halloween attractions.

Alton Towers had two new mazes to explore at Scarefest this year, together with returning favourites and plenty of spooky fun.

Photos from my trip to this year's Fright Nights at Thorpe Park, including the new Creek Freak Massacre scare maze.

Thorpe Park's new scare maze for Fright Nights 2019 is taking shape - here are some photos of the transformation of Logger's Leap into Creek Freak Massacre.

A disappointing visit to a sunny and rather busy Thorpe Park, which appeared to have run out of ... almost everything!

A slightly bonkers long weekend trip to Germany and The Netherlands covering almost 1000 kilometres and visiting the Hamburg Dom fair plus Hansa Park, De Waarbeek, Hellendoorn, Slagharen, Toverland and Movie Park Germany.