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.

If you ask the internet for 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 Sleep Experiment, and a ...

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Creepypasta represents a kind of industrialised refinement of [weird fiction] art. It is a networked effort to deliver dread in as efficient a way as possible, with the minimum of extraneous matter.

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 ...