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Can you write a HALLOWEEN story that includes 6 of these Stephen King titles?

1. Creepshow
2. The Dead Zone
3. Secret Window
4. The Night Flier
5. Sometimes They Come Back
6. Tales from the Darkside
7. The Boogeyman
8. Autopsy Room Four
9. Cycle of the Werewolf
10. Nightmares in the Sky
► This is all JUST for fun…..Let your imagination fly with the ….BATS!!!
Muawwwwwwwwwww !!! ◄

(Incidentally, I’ve read every single Stephen King book and short story listed here. I even read the Tales from the Darkside Screenplay)

If you walk down the halls of Dunlop General Hospital in Powhattan, you’ll notice that it’s a drab and dingy place. It smells strongly of antiseptic and the color theme throughout the whole building seems to be a dull mint green. Even the short term patients had been known to complain upon leaving that Dunlop was not a Very Good place to be injured or ill. However, these patients have never had the misfortune of seeing the basement, or surely their observations would be much more severe.
Dunlop’s basement is known and visited by only the most trusted of employees. Referred to by some as “the dead zone”, the basement houses all the recently deceased of Powhattan county, the autopsy rooms in which those deceased are examined, the chill freezers in which the “corpsicles” are stored and one very hidden room with only one secret window that is known to exist by only two individuals on the face of the earth.
The basement itself is set up rather routinely by hospital standards. There is a morgue loading zone for drop off and pickup of the deceased. Directly past that sits the office of Powhattan county medical examiner Gwen Steele, complete with desk and helter skelter mountains of paper work. Beyond her office sits three meticulous autopsy rooms. Still painted in dull mint green, these rooms are completely cheerless and seem to scream their purpose to the casual observer. They are meticulously cleaned, but stains still adorn the stone and tile that may never be removed. The predominant feeling within these rooms is loss.
Beyond the autopsy rooms is the “meat locker” where the corpses are stored and beyond that are two small unobtrusive unmarked doors. And that’s it for the basement of Dunlop general hospital.
As to the two unmarked doors, one is a bathroom. An autopsy can sometimes take hours, and the need to urinate will invariably arise during that length of time.
The second door is a closet. Sort of. The closet is kept locked at All Times and only two people have a key to it, though neither is a janitor.
If one were to break the lock and force the door open, they would discover a typical run of the mill hospital closet. Disinfectant and industrial cleaners sit in disarray upon the floor. There is a mop bucket complete with ancient mop and a dull light bulb suspended from the ceiling by a rusty chain. If one were to fumble around blindly, they may, by luck discover a loose tile in the floor. Once removed, this tile would reveal a trigger in the floor that would open a small section of wall in the back of the closet. That section leads to a very narrow corridor that in turn leads to autopsy room four.
Room four’s exsitence isn’t fable. It isn’t myth or legend. That’s because only Ed Rinker, the hospital administrator, and Gwen Steele herself, know of it’s exsitence. Room four supports a stainless steel table in it’s center, large freezer in the corner, an incredible array of saws, knives, scalpels and other stainless steel implements, an almost bottomless sink, and a macabre bundle of wires dangling from the ceiling. It is here that Gwen Steele, the boogeyman herself, performs her research.
You see, there is a small problem with the clientele of Autopsy room four. They are not exactly dead when brought in here, and a few are not dead when they leave. If one could truly hear the screams that have occurred in this sound proofed room, then one would be certain that all tales from the darkside spawned here.
The living are wheeled in, usually elderly or infirm. They are strapped to the table while struggling feebly in their shaky bodies. Dr. Steele wastes no time in then beginning the creepshow.
Typically, the top of the skull comes off first. Gently, delicately, so as not to sever a single connection from brain to body. The good Dr. Steele will usually take a moment to observe the quivering and pulsing of the gray matter as it sits exposed to the open air for the first time ever. Then the true atrocities begin.
So as to save the reader from the nausea associated with such procedures, it will be sufficient to say that “vile” and “hideous” are too mild of adjectives. Dr. Steele has compiled copious notes on how the living body reacts to removal of sections of brain, additions of inanimate objects to the skull, fusion of brain to other internal organs, sexual performance during neural obscenity, and all without so much as local anisthetic. This inhuman monster has discovered how long the average individual lives while the brain is exposed, what the effects on IQ are, how much pain can an individual tolerate, all the while her “patients” writhe in intense agony within their bonds.
At the end of the day, her notes are stored in a locked vault. The fresh corpses are removed. If the patient yet lives, their skulls are reattached and their now insanity wracked bodies are snuck back upstairs to ICU where they will invariably die within days. The blood is meticulously removed, and Dr. Gwen Steele will retire to her home for a cognac and some Frederick Chopin.
Her deal with the administrator is a simple one. Due to the nature of the expirements, her notes cannot be published while she is alive so there is no royalties from her discoveries. Simply and bluntly stated, she lets Ed Rinker screw her, and he continues to turn a blind eye.
But a day is coming. She already has the chloroform ready that will render him insensible. And the thought of getting him on her table makes her smile in anticipation. He has such an enormous head! Oh the brain that could therein reside! A specimen such as he may live for days!
The thought makes her shudder with delight.

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