As lead carpenter for a construction company, Brian Boyle rarely tosses anything into the scrap heap without careful consideration.

Junk from job sites turn into gems at a haunted house he constructs each October.

Boyle pulled up to the Roller Barn Wednesday with a pickup- truck bed full of discarded doors ­— the sort of sturdy material he can use to build walls next year.

“We’re really good at scrounging and repurposing,” he said.

In his eighth year as serving as the lead organizer for Frightville, Boyle’s mind is constantly at work, thinking of ways to create new features for his house of horrors.

Frightville 14, which opens Oct. 17 at the Roller Barn in Oak Harbor, has been on his mind since last Thanksgiving.

“I like scaring,” Boyle said. “There’s nothing better. If a person in a group gets scared to death, we all laugh and enjoy it. They like to get scared because of the rush, and we like to scare them. It’s like a symbiotic relationship.”

Boyle’s way of thinking runs in the family from his wife, Johanna, to their sons, Tristan, 15, and Tyler, 12.

For the first time, the entire Boyle family will be a part of the act at Frightville.

They’ll be among the 30 actors who will pop out of darkness for six nights inside the 20 rooms assembled inside the basement of a century-old barn that was once part of a dairy farm.

At the urging of his parents, Tristan finally relented and joined the cast.

“I wasn’t really ready yet,” Tristan said of past years. “They sort of talked me into it.”

This month, the Boyles are reunited with the second family of Frightville, the Sellers.

Philip Sellers also served as a mastermind with Boyle at Frightville until he got orders from the Navy to be stationed at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2012.

The Sellers returned to Oak Harbor this year just in time for Philip and his wife, Ashley, to take part in their fifth Frightville. This time, all three of their children — Audrey, 18, Timothy, 13, and Gwyneth, 10 — also will be involved.

“It’s wonderful to be back,” said Philip Sellers, who finished his naval service to join Brian Boyle as a retired chief.

Even while away in Cuba, Sellers stayed involved in the planning process for Frightville through the Internet, and his family watched videos of the scares they missed.

“They weren’t here physically but in spirit,” Johanna Boyle said.

In Cuba, Audrey Sellers took charge of a haunted house put on there annually by the high school senior class in an old wine cellar on base. It didn’t take long for her dad to get out the power tools and elevate the haunted house to another level.

They called it Fright Villa.

“There were residents who’ve been there 20 years who said they’d never seen anything like that,” Philip Sellers said.

“That’s a compliment around here,” Johanna Boyle added.

Frightville raised $15,000 last year for the Boys & Girls Club of Oak Harbor, which operates out of the Roller Barn.

Duncan Chalfant, a board member with a construction background, started the haunted house in 2000 and remains active in its planning and execution.

This year, the haunted house’s theme is a “dark circus with a classic freak show from the 1940s and ‘50s,” Johanna Boyle said.

As with any circus, clowns are part of the act, meaning “Mr. Giggles,” played by Brian Boyle, will fit right in.

Tyler Boyle debuts as “Chuckles,” son of Giggles.

The Boyles draw ideas from a collection of hundreds of horror movies they own at home as well as from the West Coast Haunters Convention they attend annually in Portland, Ore., with other Frightville volunteers.

“There’s a little freak in all of us,” Brian Boyle said, emphasizing this year’s theme.

“It’s a freak show and a carnival. More of a dark carnival.”

Frightville 14 is geared for a PG-13 audience with the exception of two special Saturday afternoon time slots with the lights on and no monsters for young children.

The organizers decided to trim the event to six nights this year because of light attendance in early October dates last year.

They also have decided to let scare seekers go through the haunted house unescorted this year.

Johanna Boyle, who’s guided visitors through the maze for years, is playing the role of a one-eyed fortune teller this year.

She admits she still won’t go through the haunted house like the public does with actors in place.

“I spent years walking backward as a guide,” she said. “I’d do that 40 times a night.

“You couldn’t pay me to go through there when everybody’s in place.”