A creepypasta story posted to Twitter in early August has spawned a series of tweets that conclude with “There’s a man out front,” and users who haven’t read the story don’t seem to understand why.

The creepypasta story behind the first season, the titular "Candle Cove," was written by Kris Straub and is simple, short, and absolutely terrifying. The plot focuses on an online chat thread where ...

Nick Antosca, in an interview on the production of his Syfy horror anthology Channel Zero, expressed that the challenge in adapting stories for his show was to find an opportunity for "an adaptation ...

Syfy's Channel Zero is one of the best shows on television that you're not watching. It's a horror anthology series based on "creepypastas"-- short, scary stories shared on forums and sites like ...

“Horror aside, the elements of good storytelling present in the best creepypastas can be applied to any kind of writing.” After an analysis of the content 72 beloved viral “Creepypasta” stories across ...

Veterans love a captive audience. If there’s an opportunity to impart a few “back in my day” tales of salt doggery, well, pull up a chair. Now, with spooky season well on its way, the time is ...

A “creepypasta” is a horror story that’s been added to, copied, and pasted across online platforms by multiple users. Essentially, they’re digitized oral histories, shared organically by independent ...

Slender Man was born on an internet forum in 2009. By 2014, the myth was so powerful that it could apparently motivate two girls to attempt to kill a friend in his name. And it was internet ...