If you were an internet kid in the early 2010s, chances are you had a phase where creepypasta stories kept you up at night, ...

The Classics. If you ask the internet for the best of creepypasta, you’re going to get lists of the same seven or eight stories: Jeff the Killer, BEN Drowned, Smile Dog, the Russian Sleep ...

All short horror stories (sidenote: check out r/shortscarystories for the treasure trove) rely on a delicious, delightful, or disturbing twist. The delivery here is one twisted twist. 29.

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 ...

They’re basically short, ... Creepypasta hit peak popularity with a 2010 New York Times story, but it still lives on. Popular Creepypastas include Ted the Caver, ...

Of all of the first wave of internet-disseminated-and-expanded Creepypasta short stories, perhaps none is as terrifying as “Candle Cove.”Penned originally by Kris Straub before being altered ...

If you want to know the full story, all 4,149 words of JC the Hyena can be read here.The short version is that the author plays the game, titled “Sonic.exe,” and finds three levels in which ...

A short, sweet, and utterly terrifying edition — though it’s unclear during which conflict the stage is set (guessing World War II). The innocuous letter home from a POW lulls the audience ...

Stanley Kubrick highlighted the unsettling power of a long hotel corridor with his horror film The Shining, and now an upcoming A24 release is set to reignite fears of a sprawling space on an even ...

Syfy’s anthology series based on a Creepypasta short story premieres September 27. The tagline “Nightmares come from somewhere” might not sound all that scary by itself, but paired with the ...

Aside from a short introduction, ... Creepypasta probably arose as a creepy form of copypasta around 2007, Mr. Rugnetta said, though it’s only recently become really popular.