They're creepy and they're kooky, mysterious and spooky ... part II of Oak Lawn's ghoulish yard tour visits the Carvellis' feast o' femurs, tibias and skulls on the 5900 block of West 97th Street. "The Bone Yard" is open from Oct. 26-29 from dusk to 10 p.m. and Oct. 30-21  from dusk to 11 p.m.

Make no bones about it, Doug Carvelli loves Halloween. Just take a gander at his 15-year-old nightmarish neighborhood staple The Bone Yard, which features a cornucopia of creepy critters and skeletal scalawags.

Doug's haunt gets its moniker from various femurs, tibias, skulls and the like hanging from his front yard tree. Hanging around at ground level are all manner of eyeball-illuminated ghouls, grim reapers and gravestones. The new kids on the block this year include a demon baby perched on the porch and a Resurrection Mary guarding the prop-strewn lawn.

"This was a dream of mine for a long time," said Doug. "We started small, and it just got bigger and bigger every year."

Like so many other local home haunt operators, Doug was at one time inspired by "Mayhem on Mansfield"—a renowned Burbank Halloween attraction that featured a knockout coordinated sound-and-light show as well as a downright infectious costumed dance tribute to Michael Jackson's "Thriller" several times a night before it closed for good in 2008. Doug acquired several beloved "Mayhem" artifacts, including a few plastic pumpkins featuring Hollywood and horror icons meticulously carved into them as well as evil jester costumes now worn by Doug's cadre of live scarers. Doug's son and friends don the masks and costumes, among them Michael Myers, to greet (and unnerve) visitors.

Some of Doug's figures are store-bought—the menacing and mechanically animated Jason near the porch, for example—but many are hand-made with great care and attention to detail. Case in point: his finely detailed werewolf, one of the oldest and possibly most sentimentally treasured piece in his collection of creatures, which appears to be bursting through the ground—ready to chomp—proudly flaunted in the foreground of his display.

"Every year, my wife Donna says, let's just leave him out of it. But I can't, because everybody loves that werewolf. They say, 'you can't take him out.' He's very low tech, and he's weathered and beat, but he's a classic," Doug said.

One prop in particular that gives Doug fits (and patrons nightmares) is a full-sized skeleton in a stockade that takes quite a few manhours to assemble each year.

While Doug and his crew love to provoke goosebumps, he himself was once more frightened than any Bone Yard visitor probably ever was.

"I was hiding out by the tree and I scared this lady walking up. She completely freaked out and tripped and fell into the street over the curb. I said, 'I'm so sorry,' and offered her a hand up. Because I still had my mask on, she freaked out again and tripped in the street once more. Luckily, she was alright. Meanwhile, her friends, who are hysterically laughing, come over and say to me, 'please get back behind the tree—we're going to bring more people here for you to scare."

Doug said he starts planning for the next year's worth of scares as soon as he starts dissembling The Bone Yard on November 1. The serious designing and building occurs in August and September so that he's ready to go live come early October.

"What we look forward to most is the unbelievable amount of people who come back every single year and compliment us," he said. "It's become a tradition for so many families. I was going to make it more horrific and gory, but I was asked by many people to please leave The Bone Yard the way it is, because it's an all-ages display that everyone can enjoy."