Scary stories aren’t ... A more refined creepypasta reader might roll their eyes at these kind of clickbait-y attempts, but “Smile Dog” is inarguably a staple. 33. The Story of Her Holding ...

Among the copypasta lurked some seriously scary ... the best of creepypasta, you’re going to get lists of the same seven or eight stories: Jeff the Killer, BEN Drowned, Smile Dog, the Russian ...

Like with the ghost stories of old, not all creepypastas are particularly scary or very good ... "be careful what you wish for," Smile Dog is it. The creepypasta deals with an image posted ...

You know the ones—Smile.jpg ... The term Creepypasta itself has likewise expanded, becoming a catch-all phrase to describe the Internet’s most scary, weird, and terrifying phenomena.

The best part about a creepypasta is that it's supposed to live on the internet. From Jeff the Killer to Smile Dog, right on down ... They drew a childlike, yet still scary, face on the back ...

It recently occurred to me that, for all the discussion of freaky creepypasta you and I have ... an extra dose of realness to the tale. “Smile Dog,” for example, centers around this image ...

They discuss what makes the "creepypasta" genre so scary, and if TV adaptations of these online stories can stay true to the creepiness of the originals.