far and away the most famous example of a viral scary story. Slender Man has been the subject of a feature film, video games, and was even name-dropped in a disturbing real-life stabbing ...

There are some horror stories that don't necessarily scream ... of "bubblegum" comes through in this subgenre. So what are ...

Eller, gathering the finest works of a writer who was Jackson’s contemporary and her equal as an author of unnerving stories ... complete with a king Fans of horror-lite should certainly ...

Example: “The Blair Witch Project” (1999 ... While the term “creepypasta” has since come to encompass any short horror story on the internet, its roots were originally founded in anonymous ...

The Backrooms is just one example in an emerging genre of collaborative online horror. Other stories include the SCP Foundation - a Wikipedia-style website where anyone can document "anomalies ...

Scary stories are supposed to be, you guessed it, scary. Watch what happens to these ducks for example. Hey, not so fast ducks. When you write a scary story you need to frighten the reader.

“When they do I say, ‘You’re right, it’s a scary story, and it should be scary,’” she said. Indeed, there’s an even older history linking frightful feelings and winter celebrations ...