Delightfully dismembered body parts and cauldrons of carnage have become a Halloween tradition at a certain 17th Street and Eureka Street apartment, where passersby are treated to a terrifying window arrangement. It’s the work of the devilish Scott Liapis, who put his blood and guts into handcrafting a completely new and unique gallery of horrifying props every year.

“We moved into this apartment on Oct. 31, 2010,” Liapis tells SF Weekly. “The next year, I got some heads and had some dead heads floating in the window. And then the next year I started building characters. Every year it’s gotten more complicated.”

You may have seen his previous years’ Halloween displays, like Mr. Hook’s Daycare Gymboree or the gory gay marriage-inspired Til Death Do Us Part. This year’s incarnation is the “Corn Queen,” a witchy beauty pageant wannabe surrounded by trophies made of the bones of little girls.

“She has always wanted to be a pageant queen,” Liapis says of the Corn Queen. “Because of her looks and who she is, she never really measured up.

“She just happened to come across a bunch of little pageant girls. And so she slaughtered the girls, and she made herself some trophies out of their bones, some sashes out of their skin, and then a full-body suit out of their fleshy, plump skin.“

In reality, the Corn Queen is an opposable mannequin topped off with a mask. The bones are plastic and painted gold, and Liapis has been crafting them since July.

“The bones are actually these cheap Halloween props, they’re called Bag of Bones. I bought, like, 20 bags,” he tells us. “I just got some wood, some dowels, and put a stake in them and started designing each one. Not a single [trophy] is the same, I was very strict about that.”

Liapis is also strict about not letting people see the display until it’s completely finished.

“The difficult part is that I don’t want anyone to see it til it’s done,” he says. “But how do you do that when it’s in your front window? I wait till 11 o’clock at night to set things up.”

This year’s Corn Queen arrangement has less blood than previous years, but does draw on the recurring theme of slain little children.

“In the past, it’s been about the gore,” Liapis tells us. “People get really offended. They think think it’s satanic. Usually it’s a child gutted, and people aren’t really comfortable seeing kids and gore.”

But most people do love these devious decorations, and Liapis revels in the reactions.

“It’s an immediate audience,” he tells us. “I can sit here at night and hear what people say. I love making people happy and shocked and scared. It’s Halloween, it should be like that.”

The Corn Queen remains on display every night of October from 7 p.m. to midnight at 17th Street and Eureka streets.