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 ...

Creepypasta writers take popular urban legends—remember the legend of Bloody Mary?—or create entirely new subjects and fashion online stories with the intent to totally freak out the reader.

For an entire decade, Creepypasta.Com has collected and debuted the internet's version of scary campfire stories. With over half a million unique visitors each month, the site is a quiet ...

The story Syfy’s Creepypasta-inspired horror anthology Channel Zero looked to for its sophomore season isn’t the best the genre has to offer, but, luckily, No-End House uses only the bare ...

So much so that the Creepypasta wiki, unofficial home to stories involving the character (and others like him), has had to issue a statement confirming that he is not real.

A growing phenomenon making its way around message boards and e-mail chains is “creepypasta,” bite-sized bits of scariness joining the unending list of things to do.