It was the music, they said, that drove the children to madness. The eerie, detuned soundtrack to Pokémon Red’s Lavender Town contained harmful sonic irregularities played at such high frequencies ...

When things become ubiquitous, they also have a tendency to lose their punch. That’s what has happened to a lot of classic creepypasta stories in the years since the Internet-based genre of horror ...

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 ...

Syfy's Channel Zero is one of the best shows on television that you're not watching. It's a horror anthology series based on "creepypastas"-- short, scary stories shared on forums and sites like ...

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 ...

The Internet has made it possible for anyone to be the next Stephen King by allowing aspiring horror writers to share their own scary stories with the public. Many of these viral, terrifying tales, ...

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, when a web user ...

The Backrooms began as an image. Posted on April 21, 2018, a small thumbnail picture appeared on 4chan’s /x/ board showing a yellow room, its walls all in the wrong places, with gold-yellow carpets ...