Halloween writing prompts!

The end of October is drawing close and that can only mean one thing: Halloween!
Where I live this celebration isn’t alive. At all. Sure there are some trick-or-treaters but no pumpkins and massive garden decorations, which is sad.
It leaves my family with so little of an impression that we nearly every year have forgotten to buy candy, and the kids were too nice to give us any crazy trick to have us remember for next year. I can’t even be bothered to go to the door because they all have really boring costumes.
As I said it’s quite dull around Halloween where I live, but enough about how I (don’t) celebrate Halloween and more of the writing prompts.

Halloween is in my eyes a time of coziness, pumpkins and a tad of horror so here we go:
  1. What is Melanie doing in an abandoned house in…