When the internet created the Slender Man, it did not realize it had made manifest the fears of a whole generation adrift in the digital age. Jess is an LA-based culture critic who covers intimacy in ...

Slender Man appears as if out of nowhere, hungry. Blank faced and besuited, the tall, tentacled monster hasn’t slipped into the kitchen to prey upon the pretty girl standing at the hob. Instead, he’s ...

The origin of culturally recognized monsters vary. Some are the result of ignorance of the world around those that invented them, constructed as a means to explain things that science at the time had ...