PLAYGROUND for the dead

Dana Walters, 50, from Modesto, California, USA

Clicking through properties on an estate agent’s website, I found myself browsing a disused building that had once been a funeral home.

‘Wow, this is cheap!’ I said to my wife Milan.

‘That’s because nobody else wants it,’ she laughed. ‘Who’d want to take over a spooky old undertakers?’ ‘I would!’ I thought, looking at the specifications. The building was huge – just what I needed.

I’d been running my costume shop, Daydreams and Nightmares, for over a decade, but I had so much stock that I was running out of space