Creepy Pastas (And My Recommendations)

So here's a thing:

There is a massive lack of good literary horror that exists. Most of the horrors I read try to play on the 'it's scary because humans are capable!' bull-shit which is what I don't want. Also monsters suck of not done right. Given, it's a hard thing to manage - I will be writing another post soon on horror and the different categories of it, but for now I would like to point to where I find my favourite short horror: Creepypasta.

Creepypastas, if you are unaware, are just internet short fictions based on horror. Most of them are realyl amature and posted places by people who can't write very well, but the stories can still be quite good. The majority are farily awful, but it is fairly simple to filter through to the good ones that actually work on horror techniques. A typical bad one relies on talking about blod or the twist was that it was you all along. But the good ones actually employ some decent suspense or chills that could only work in writing. So without further ado, the following are some of my favourite creepy pastas:

• Ben Drowned: http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/BEN_Drowned 'Ben Drowned' is much better if you know about the game Zelda: Majora's Mask for N64, because the story is about this. It is set up in a real blog and first person like a diary, and when it was first published, many people believed it was real. The story follows as the writer of the blog explained how he bought a pirate cartrige of Majora's Mask and the kind is kind of weird. Every day follows and the posts are more and more disturbed until he realises he's being haunted by 'BEN'.

Sounds pretty lame, but it is set out really well and to top it off, there is video footage of the fucked up game.

•   Candle Cove: http://www.creepypasta.com/candle-cove/ 'Candle Cove' is one of my favourite concepts, especially from this site, and it is simply only let down by it's somewhat un-great twist of an ending. Overall it is set out like a copy-paste from a forum where each person speaks in term as if talking in a thread and they all remember a really quite strange show as a child called 'Candle Cove'. It's really quite fantastic.

Give it a read, it's worth the time, it's really an entertaining concept.

• The Portraits: http://www.creepypasta.com/the-portraits 'The Portraits' on the website is very much  a short and not very well detailed story, but the idea is very much the same. For how bad it is, this is actually my favourite basic story creepypasta and I love telling it to people because I can embellish it and make it sound a bit better: But meh, here's how I tell it:

   There was a hunter, alone, in the woods. He had decided to pick a different wood than where he usually hunted and spent the best part of the day collecting game. After a while he began to notice it getting dark and realised he had become so immersed in his hunting that he wasn't paying attention to where he was. He was lost. After walking a little while further he came across a cabin in the woods and decided to ask if he could take refuge 'til the morning where he could get back to his car, but upon knocking, the door swung open. The cabin was empty, and cold. He figured many nobody lived here anymore, so he found his way to a bedroom that had a bed with a duvet, so he lay his things down and hopped on the bed to try to get some rest. After a while, he opened his eyes and noticed, in the dark that there were many portraits on the walls. All kind of people, and all of them angry and all of their eyes fixed on him. Feeling uncomfortable, he decided to hide his head under the duvet and sleep it off. 
     In the morning he was awoken by the sunlight and pulled his head out of the bed to make one realisation. There were no portaits. Only windows.



And as always. Ciao for now!