Creepypasta, on the other hand, is copypasta’s evil mirror, the spookier version of terrifying tales that end on the creepiest note possible—their horror often enhanced by their brevity, their ...

As Creepypasta grew in popularity, filmmakers saw the potential to capitalize on the genre’s unique blend of internet culture and horror. The first major movie to emerge was Slender Man ...

The SCP Foundation started as a niche internet horror project but it quickly spread like a digital virus, reshaping online ...

The Dionaea House – The Dionaea House is another early creepypasta, dating back to 2004, written by Eric Heisserer, who has actually found some success in the film industry since.

It recently occurred to me that, for all the discussion of freaky creepypasta you and I have done here over the past few months, we’ve never gone in depth about what creepypasta is. I mean, yes ...

Creepypasta represents a kind of industrialised refinement of [weird fiction] art. It is a networked effort to deliver dread in as efficient a way as possible, with the minimum of extraneous matter.

Military Creepypasta has plenty of scary war stories to recite around a campfire this Halloween season. (Composite via Canva) Veterans love a captive audience.

Creepypasta hit peak popularity with a 2010 New York Times story, but it still lives on. Popular Creepypastas include Ted the Caver, stories about a man spelunking a mystery cave, ...

In the big, wide world of creepypasta, there's one I keep coming back to again and again: “Abandoned by Disney.” Written by Christopher Howard Wolf, frequently known by the moniker ...

Creepypasta probably arose as a creepy form of copypasta around 2007, Mr. Rugnetta said, though it’s only recently become really popular. (According to Google Trends, ...