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.

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 ...

Nick Antosca, in an interview on the production of his Syfy horror anthology Channel Zero, expressed that the challenge in adapting stories for his show was to find an opportunity for "an adaptation ...

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 ...

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, ...

“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 ...

A “creepypasta” is a horror story that’s been added to, copied, and pasted across online platforms by multiple users. Essentially, they’re digitized oral histories, shared organically by independent ...

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 ...

Most of us probably already know that most creepypasta stories aren't actually real — but are there any creepypastas based on real-life events or phenomena? In a word, yes. Yes there are, and they're ...

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 ...

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