Creepypasta has many progenitors going all the way back to the earliest storytellers, parents using scary tales to correct juvenile behavior, and stories told around the campfire, to name a few.
As a former English teacher and Librarian, it rankles me to hear people denigrate or attempt to ban literature they do not understand or have even read! Not all literature is Pulitizer, Caldecott or Nobel worthy, but it does represent a creative effort to entertain. elucidate, instruct, or scare the bejeepers out of the reader. The last function being cathartic, much like tragedy.
Creepypasta has many progenitors going all the way back to the earliest storytellers, parents using scary tales to correct juvenile behavior, and stories told around the campfire, to name a few.
As a former English teacher and Librarian, it rankles me to hear people denigrate or attempt to ban literature they do not understand or have even read! Not all literature is Pulitizer, Caldecott or Nobel worthy, but it does represent a creative effort to entertain. elucidate, instruct, or scare the bejeepers out of the reader. The last function being cathartic, much like tragedy.
Lovecraft, Bloch, Bradbury and Leiber are influences on my writing.
Spreading urban legends and scaring the pants off of impressionable young minds is one of the better uses of the internet 😁