For Halloween I got lost in creepypasta, a peculiar kind of horror folklore adapted for social media. I examine the story elements that make a creepypasta go viral, and ponder what this tells us about our deepest fears and darkest desires.https://rabbitholemag.com/creepypastas-the-monsters-we-make/ …
I've never written about creepypasta before. I did once write an article that mentioned the Slender Man stabbing, although that article was actually about jihadism:https://thehumanist.com/magazine/january-february-2018/features/monster-hijacking-human-minds …