Copypasta’s most popular genre is Creepypasta, bits of copy-and-pasted text that convey scary stories and unsettling urban legends. Creepypasta writers take popular urban legends—remember the ...

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.

It’s not the tagline to an especially nerdy sequel for The Ring, but it is the idea behind an infamous internet creepypasta known as Sonic.exe. The story of Sonic.exe starts in 2011 ...

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 ...

Among the copypasta lurked some seriously scary stories and urban legends, and by the mid-2000s, people were calling these stories “creepypasta.” Like spaghetti thrown at a wall, the name stuck.

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 ...

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 ...

Horror folklore that's written and shared online is colloquially called "creepypasta," and the term has become synonymous with the name Slenderman in recent years. Creepypasta authors are the ...