Haunting images...

Walk on the wild side in Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards

- By Emily Beament

STRANGE creatures haunt the darkness as the nights draw in - and few look creepier than this rare brown hyena skulking in a mining ghost town.

The spooky image shows the predator next to an abandoned building in the former diamond-mining centre of Kolmanskop in Namibia.

It took Wim van den Heever 10 years to get the single shot in a perfect frame using camera-trap technology.

Prickly

But it was worth the wait - as the South African has now been named Wildlife Photographer of the Year.