Horror Writing Prompts (First Installment)

My favorite: average person!

#1. Take your least favorite horror creature (vampire, werewolf, zombie, demon, etc.) and make it the main character in a piece. It can be either the protagonist or the antagonist, but it must be one of those two. Keep working at it until you actually like the creature and think of it as original.

#2. The zombie apocalypse has just arrived, and you are someone who has no skill with any kind of weaponry, any food stored up, or great knowledge. In fact, you're thoroughly average. It's a miracle you haven't been bitten yet. What are your short- and long-term goals to survival? How do you plan to save yourself now? Once you're relatively safe, how are you going to stay alive and decimate the infected?

#3. You receive a strange gift in the mail; a decapitated dog head. Before you're about to throw it out, it starts barking at you. You are startled and drop the box. The dog reveals that it has one paw that it can slowly move with. You attempt to kill it and it grows another paw. What happens next?