Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the future of books and the business of storytelling. For an entire decade, Creepypasta.Com has collected and ...

Creepypasta is a fiction subgenre that consists of mini-horror stories passed along online and through the years. From chain emails to TikToks, it’s grown to encompass both the chilling and the ...

Shadows dance across pixelated screens, weaving nightmares from digital threads. Emerging from the depths of internet folklore, a spine-chilling genre transforms collective imagination into terrifying ...

First they were called chain emails, and they were sent by people like your weird aunt who always wore a Big Dog t-shirt. An online version of physical chain letters, chain emails propagated hoaxes ...

You’re standing on the edge of the woods and the sun is bleeding into the horizon. The trees around you are still dead and leafless from winter, and the forest is a black mass of thin trunks and ...

The second Channel Zero series is based on Brian Russell's The No-End House, which sets up the titular traveling haunted house attraction as the ultimate terror. Four ...

The Season 1 finale of Syfy’s creepypasta anthology series Channel Zero just wrapped, so now it’s time to look forward to the next internet urban legend that will scare our pants off. Creepypastas ...

A day after prosecutors claimed two 12-year-old girls stabbed their friend to please a mythological creature, a website that publishes stories about the creepy urban legend says it’s not to blame for ...