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An extra special decoration has been created ahead of this year's Halloween celebrations.

American farmer Tony Dighera has produced thousands of Frankenstein-shaped pumpkins, or, as they have been cleverly nicknamed, Pumpkinsteins!

The intricately detailed fruits that took four years to perfect are expected to retail at over $100 each.

Dighera grows the pumpkins in a special plastic mould but despite the success he is currently enjoying, the venture wasn't an instant success.

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The 53-year-old worked his way through 27 separate types of pumpkin before finding the perfect variety to take on the monster shape.

Struggling to find the right pumpkin set Dighera back just short of half a million dollars but now he is reaping the benefits of his perseverance.

The farmer sold his crop to retailers months ago at a staggering $75-a-head - literally.

And with a harvest of roughly 5,500 this year, that's a tidy gross income of over $412,500.

Dighera knew the process would take time and also admitted that it was a basic trial and error method which led him to the winning formula.

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“I started playing around and realized pretty quickly this wasn’t going to be a quick thing.

“But I also realized that if I could really figure it out, I would have something special.

“When you try something for four years of your life, people really start to think you’re wacko,” he told The New York Times.

Dighera is set to devote the whole of his 40-acre farm to the venture in time for next year's celebrations.