Creepypasta is a genre of horror stories that have gained immense popularity on the internet. These unsettling tales range from short to long and are characterized by their eerie atmosphere, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the future of books and the business of storytelling. For an entire decade, Creepypasta.Com has collected and ...

You’re standing on the edge of the woods and the sun is bleeding into the horizon. The trees around you are still dead and leafless from winter, and the forest is a black mass of thin trunks and ...

Shadows dance across pixelated screens, weaving nightmares from digital threads. Emerging from the depths of internet folklore, a spine-chilling genre transforms collective imagination into terrifying ...

A day after prosecutors claimed two 12-year-old girls stabbed their friend to please a mythological creature, a website that publishes stories about the creepy urban legend says it’s not to blame for ...

The tragic events in Waukesha, in which two young girls are accused of stabbing a friend, have brought internet myth Slender Man into the mainstream spotlight. So much so that the Creepypasta wiki, ...

Everybody loves a good story. Whether it’s an epic fantasy of heroes on a quest to save the world, a cosy and sweet romance, or a horror story about what lurks in the darkness, humans have been ...