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Halloween Fiction Prompts Culled from the News

Each month we gather some news headlines that are strange enough to be fiction. Here’s a horrific batch of Halloween headlines to get your creative juices bubbling:
Family flees 6,000 deadly spiders “bleeding out of the walls” of home
Woman buried alive, funeral goers hear screams from the grave
Teenage girl cuts off her playmate’s fingers with an axe for sacrifice to Satan
Man finds free dead mouse in his McDonald’s coffee
Nurse accused of killing 38 patients she found annoying, taking selfies with the bodies
Illinois driver finds coyote stuck in car’s bumper once arriving to work
Man crawls up from subway hatch to throw smoke bomb at New York diners
Grieving parents find supposedly dead son at door
Thieves toss chainsaws at cops
Man grows gigantic, likely evil, pumpkins in backyard
Woman finds three-inch leech living inside her nose
Gigantic crabzilla monster gets ready to attack Britain
Scary clowns plague California towns

