Creepypasta

Congratulations. You have just discovered the secret wiki page. Only the “List of all Pages” system links to it. As your reward, have some classic creepypasta: the Slender Man Mythos’ spiritual kin.

Nowadays people apply the term “creepypasta” to nearly all amateur horror online, sometimes even to dismiss stories as low-quality. But the term used to have a much narrower definition: creepy “copypasta”, meaning short segments of (usually) anonymously-written text copied-and-pasted on forums and imageboards. Some even narrowed it to stories from 4chan’s /x/ alone, but it’s been used in relation to the Slender Man Mythos since the original thread (in a comment by the SCP-173 creator, no less). So the Slender Man itself is not a creepypasta, but its mythos can be said to include several creepypastas without being limited to them. The Rake, on the other hand, started as a creepypasta –but already has a page here, so it won’t be on the lists below.

The derogatory connotation of “creepypasta” is entirely unfair to stories that fit the term’s original definition, and even some that don’t, because they have a certain authenticity and charm that really can’t be found anywhere else. Like the Slender Man Mythos, they tell either original stories or old urban legends the way friends would around a campfire –just substitute the flashlight on their face for the glow of your computer screen. And enjoy.

Table of Contents

Short Stories

Longform Stories

Standalone

Lovecraftian: The Russian Sleep Experiment, The Disappearance of Ashley, Kansas, Hands, Fog, God’s Mouth, NoEnd House, House of Rules, The Puppetmaster’s Regime, Room 733, Between Ice and Stars

American Gothic: Midnight Train, Hell at High Altitude, The House That Death Forgot, The Thing That Stalks the Fields, 12 Minutes, Midwest, Burnin’ Down the Ozarks (half-comedy), The Art of Jacob Emory, Something Happened 63 Years Ago, The Number of Darkness, The Well Went Bad on the Pierson Farm

Urban Legend: The Showers, Anansi’s Goatman Story, Mayhem Mountain, Uncle Gerry’s Family Fun Zone, Hanging Man Hill

Ritual: The Cell Phone Game, The Devil Game, The Soul Game, One-Man Hide and Seek, Midnight Game, Dark Reflection Ritual, Another Senseless Ritual, 11 Miles

Internet: Candle Cove (from Ichor Falls), Binary DNA, Smile.jpg, The Grifter, Normal Porn for Normal People, My Dead Girlfriend Keeps Messaging Me on Facebook

Video Games: BEN Drowned (and its ARG), Lavender Town Syndrome, Pokémon Black, Herobrine, Fallout 3 Numbers Station, Polybius, Pale Luna, Misfortune.gb, The Theater, Killswitch

Speculative Fiction: The Strangest Security Tape I’ve Ever Seen, Tulpa, Fresh Faces, The Strangers, The Pill, When Gods Blink (half-comedy), Charles Bonnet Syndrome, A Small Piece of Lead

Adult Fears: Psychosis, Autopilot, She Found Her Way Into My Home, Doors, 1999, Don’t Let Them In, Living History, Return to Sender, Copper Canyon

Horror-Adjacent (“Feelspasta”): An Egg, A Late-Night Crash, Love, A Shattered Life, Something Went Wrong with My Heart Transplant, What Happens when the Stars Go Out, All Too Human

Crappypasta (parody): WHO WAS PHONE? (and its archaic reinterpretation), AND THEN A SKELETON POPPED OUT, TEH DAY OF ALL TEH BLOD, Man Door Hand Hook Car Door, The Boy Who Loved to Read, The Scariest Video Game Ever, Hyper-Realistic, Last Words, A Fresh Start, Does Anyone Know a Good Plumber?, The Only Sensible Ritual Pasta, Soviet pastas

Series

Anthologies: SCP Foundation (start with About the SCP Foundation, Heritage Collection, Top Rated Pages; see also The Wanderers Library, Visual Records, Links, and SCP Archive), The Holders, Ichor Falls, Bogleech, Slimebeast (most famously Abandoned by Disney, Room Zero, and Funnymouth), The Josef K. Stories, Curious Things, Interface Series

Multi-part Stories: Penpal, Bedtime, Borrasca (sequel here), Search and Rescue Woods, Accounts from a Lonely Broadcast Station, Tales from the Gas Station (half-comedy), The Spire in the Woods, Left/Right Game

Creepypasta Adjacent

These should under no circumstances be called “creepypasta” as that would contribute to the vacuous broadening of the term, but it’d also be stupid to deny they essentially have more in common with good creepypastas than bad creepypastas do. They’re all authentic, immersive experiences, and many found footage series in particular qualify as the Slenderverse’s spiritual successors.