Winner! Bob Vila's First Annual Pumpkin Carving Contest

To all you pumpkin-carving connoisseurs and jack-o'-lantern maestros out there, thank you for your submissions! Your pumpkins really blew us away, making our decision all the more difficult. So on top of unveiling the triumphant "King or Queen of Carving", we've gathered some of other favorites too, so you can love them as much as we did.

America's favorite rodent makes a special Halloween appearance on this fantastic pumpkin. It may not be the scariest on the block, but it's certain to have been the biggest hit with the kids.

Jack looked to the right, and then to the left. "Only a year until it's Halloween again," he whispered, eyes gleaming with malevolence and the promise of shenanigans.... We love a good stem-nosed pumpkin.

It may not technically be a pumpkin, but this 'funkin' carving is still so impressive. Using a Dremel drill, Scott etched the US Marine Corps Seal with such skill and care that we couldn't err in also naming his work Most Patriotic.

Not one, not two, but four ghoulish faces adorn this fantastic pumpkin-cum-sculpture. Halloween, schmalloween—this work of vegetable art deserves to be in a museum!

Part squash, part 19th-century machine, and totally awesome, we present to you the Steam Pumpkins. No further description necessary. 

Congratulations to James Hall, King of Carving! Creative, realistic, and a little mind-boggling, his pumpkin functions as both sculpture and mask—that's right, he's actually wearing it on his head. "It was lighter than I expected," James tells us. Woah!

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