Two stabbings in the US have been linked to the fantasy horror character Slender Man. Who is he? The Know Your Meme, external site defines Slender Man, or Slenderman, as "a mythical creature often ...

The new horror movie Slender Man ends with a vague, voiceover reminder: “we” spread the “virus” that is the antagonist. By sharing Slender Man’s mythos — through websites and drawings and late night ...

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 ...

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 ...

When two 12 year-old girls attacked their friend in the woods of Waukesha, Wisconsin in May of 2014, they claimed to have done it to please Slender Man — a fictional monster created by Eric Knudsen, A ...

Creepypasta may have been born on the internet but it still borrows heavily from previous storytelling traditions. [Slender Man, the new movie based on one of the web’s most well-known scary stories, ...