A haunted house has opened in Brecon for one night only to celebrate Halloween.

The house, which is based on The Uplands, is guaranteed to scare daring visitors this evening.

Behind the annual spooky experience is Jay Newman, 35, along with her partner Matthew Catley, 38, and her daughters 17-year-old Courtney Williams, eight-year-old Chloe Catley and 11-month-old Hollie Catley who will be dressed as a baby witch.

Starting in the front garden with cursed looking china-dolls, graves and other ghoulish decorations, the haunted walk-through runs through the hallway and the kitchen before finishing in the back garden.

Guests can expect to be entertained by lighting, video and sound effects as well as some jump scares from creepy killer clowns.

Jay said: "We do this every year and it is a family effort. We’ve been doing it since 2007 when we started with a little house and a couple of graves outside the house.

"It just gets bigger and bigger every year, it’s almost like I’m in competition with myself. It’s for the kids really but I just get ahead of myself every year."

The Halloween enthusiasts even have help from the local children with elements of the attraction such as gathering dry leaves for the display in the front garden.

The family start prepping for the eerie spectacle between a week to two weeks in advance, and have various handmade props.

Jay said: "We put everything out on the day, and then it all gets brought back in later on the same day.

"We hand make pretty much all of the decorations, some of them are from the £1 shop and they've been vamped up.

"The big props are all hand-made. We will save for something if we really like it so we can add it."

The family, which has been joined on occasions in past years by their immediate neighbours, said the goal is to get the whole row of houses involved in future Halloween festivities.

Jay said: "The kids love it, from September they start nagging me about what we’re doing and whether they can help.

"It is for the kids, but it’s also for myself I suppose as well.

"We do even get adults who come in or you can see them trying to convince their children to come in."

Some visitors are understood to be too afraid to enter the house past the front gate.

However Jay said the actors won’t jump out at or chase the younger children.

The most expensive aspect of the night is the batteries for some of the decorations and sweets which are given to children.

Courtney said: "We had one year where we had to run to the shops halfway through the night because we’d run out of sweets.

"We went to the Spar but all they had left was the individual lollies so we were having to buy all these individually wrapped sweets."

The house, which is best visited after dark, will be open to visitors from around 5pm.