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,” as Will Wiles explains in Aeon Magazine, is “a widely distributed and leaderless effort to make and share scary stories.” It is a phenomenon powered by the internet — the word itself ...

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 ...

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 ...

Aya Tsintziras is a freelance writer who writes about TV, movies, and has a particular interest in the horror genre. She has a Political Science degree from the University of Toronto and a Masters of ...

The word “creepypasta” is goofy by design. It started with the word “copypasta”, which is a bit of a twist on calling something a copy-and-paste, the term likely originating on 4chan. Copypastas were ...

Anyone reading the news this weekend are likely asking themselves, "Who is Slender Man?" and "What on Earth is Creepypasta?!"... and they have good reason to be both curious and concerned. Headlines ...

Warner Bros. has secured the rights for a film based on a Reddit post starring Sydney Sweeney. The story was first posted to the r/nosleep subreddit, known for its "creepypasta" scary tales. Hollywood ...

On June 8, 2009, Eric Knudsen posted two black and white images he had Photoshopped to a forum called "Something Awful." The forum was hosting a photo manipulation contest and was taking submissions ...