But to countless numbers of horror-lovers on the Internet, these stories and more like them have spawned sleepless nights and viral storytelling—a whole new genre of horror known as creepypasta.

Stanley Kubrick highlighted the unsettling power of a long hotel corridor with his horror film The Shining, and now an ...

If you ever read a story online about a haunted TV episode, you’ve already eaten the creepypasta. Scary viral stories, images, and vids, often very short, are creepypasta — some will scare you ...

For a while, A24’s Backrooms movie was stuck in a liminal space of its own. Announced back in 2023, the creepypasta-inspired ...

Welcome to Flip La Script! 🎮👻 A twisted blend of creepypasta-style storytelling and entertainment horror, like The Twilight Zone—but for gaming horror stories! I write it, I game it ...

No one is in charge of policing such terms, obviously, but as nearest as it can be explained a creepypasta is something like Slender Man – a story that is destined, whether by design or fate ...

The Backrooms' movie has set Renate Reinsve to star opposite Chiwetel Ejiofor, with 19-year-old Kane Parsons to direct.

But it’s not until January 7 of 2022 that the creepypasta becomes a phenomenon. That happens when Kane Pixels (aka Parsons) posts his first video set in the Backrooms. It’s fair to say that ...

Probably not. Is it fun? Decidedly. The video is part of a growing phenomenon making its way around message boards and e-mail chains called “creepypasta” bite-sized bits of scariness that ...

YouTube series The Backrooms, based on an internet creepypasta, is set to become an A24 horror movie – and it'll be directed by its 17-year-old creator Kane Parsons. James Wan and Shawn Levy ...

And Military Creepypasta has more than enough to spare for that next session of campfire storytelling. These may all be fictional tales, but they will nevertheless leave readers quaking.

What better way to slightly unsettle myself than by taking my lunch break to dive into what can only be described as a playable Animal Crossing creepypasta? Harvest Festival 64 is the result of ...