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.

In horror, as in all genres, inventive storytelling always trumps budgets or effects, and that fact is once again ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Internet doesn't need any help being scary. Every day, something is hacked, or someone is spying on someone else (probably you), or somebody's social media post went viral among the wrong crowd, ...

Creepypasta, short viral horror stories that usually take the form of urban legends, have been around for roughly a decade, being passed around reddit and other forums. (The name comes from the 4chan ...

The first six-episode cycle of Syfy’s new horror anthology series, Channel Zero, takes inspiration from the creepypasta story Candle Cove, about a kiddie TV show that lingers in the memory and maybe ...

It was the music, they said, that drove the children to madness. The eerie, detuned soundtrack to Pokémon Red’s Lavender Town contained harmful sonic irregularities played at such high frequencies ...

Morgan Geyser, the now 22-year-old woman whose obsession with the Slender Man creepypasta character led her to stab a ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...