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This is an accepted version of this page This is the accepted version, checked on 28 February 2025. There are template/file changes awaiting review. Online horror fiction Creepypastas are horror -related legends or images that have been copied and pasted around the Internet. These Internet entries are often brief, user-generated, paranormal stories intended to scare, frighten, or discomfort ...
A creepypasta is a horror-related legend which has been shared around the Internet. [1] [2] [3] The term creepypasta has since become a catch-all term for any horror content posted onto the Internet. [4] These entries are often brief, user-generated, paranormal stories that are intended to frighten readers.
Petscop is a YouTube horror web series by Tony Domenico, [2] made to resemble a YouTube Let's Play series. The videos follow "Paul", the protagonist, exploring and documenting a supposedly "long-lost PlayStation video game" titled Petscop. The 24-episode [3] series ran from March 12, 2017, to September 2, 2019. [1]
Cracked After Hours is a comedy web series created by Jack O'Brien and Daniel O'Brien and hosted on the website Cracked.com (and simultaneously on YouTube). [1] Produced by Cracked and its then-parent company The E. W. Scripps Company, [2] [3] the series premiered on July 19, 2010, and its final episode was released on November 20, 2017.
Candle Cove is an online creepypasta horror story written by web cartoonist and author Kris Straub. The story centers on a discussion of the titular fictional children's television series on an Internet forum. Straub has stated that he was inspired to write the creepypasta after reading an article in The Onion entitled "Area 36-Year-Old Still Has Occasional Lidsville Nightmare". Straub's story ...
Originating as a creepypasta based on the 2000 action-adventure game The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask and published by Hall from 2010 to 2020 with a hiatus in-between, the series is known for creating many of the current common tropes and themes of creepypasta and for subverting themes from The Legend of Zelda series. The series concluded on ...
The comic featured simple black and white drawings and slapstick humor. It ran for 11 years and achieved particular notoriety for its strip All Houses Matter upon release in 2014 [9] [10] and then again during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests. [11] In 2012, Straub launched the webcomic Broodhollow, a self-described "serial horror comic."
The Daily Dot's Aja Romano wrote that it "may be the earliest viral example of what we think of as creepypasta". [6] However, academic writer Tosha R. Taylor cited "Ted the Caver" as an online horror story which did not go viral but largely remained within online "spaces dedicated to discussions of gothic experiences", where it continues to be ...