#I like these categories more than just: animal comma demon comma nightmare

[leafatlaw]

what is something you always want to talk about

Basically creepy pastas are a lot more varied and creative than a lot of people give them credit for, so fucking creepy pasta categories. (Disclaimer I am no means an expert in creepy pastas, I’ve only occasionally scrolled r/ no sleep and pretended to have a crush on Ben drowned in 2012. This is only based on my limited knowledge and if anyone wants to add on or correct me go ahead.)

So there’s really a lot of different types of creepy pastas from the stereotypical Jeff the killer type to stuff that eventually gets published. To start it off I’ll talk about the first kind, probably the best known which is the killer type aka whatever the slender verse is. I would put anything in this category that is mostly about creepy guy(gender neutral) that kills people. Laughing jack, ticci toby, Jane the killer, ect ect. While Ben drowned is typically associated with this crowd I would really say he doesn’t fit in this category. While most of the examples listed above are mostly underwelling in scare factor, the expaiok of these stories have created some truly awesome tales. These are a staple of the genre and I adore them no matter how poorly they’ve aged.

Beyond that I’m going to skip ahead and talk about one of my favorite subgenres Lost Episodes/Media. I love these stories so much because they take specially childhood memories of vhs tapes and nostalgic games, and made it so that there’s a chance something safe and familiar can be twisted and distorted. In this category we have classics like Squidwards suicide, Suicide mouse, and Dead Bart. This genre will typically be either badly edited clips or basically stories passed around (in the truest form of creepy pasta). The real gem of this genre in my opinion is the creepy pasta “Lost Episodes can be found Again”, which is a genuis written take on this subgenre and tries to basically explain it. No spoilers just go read it it’s great and interesting even if you’re not well versed in lost episodes.

Okay back to where I should have started, what I call first person accounts. Where the story is told from a first person perspective of someone who has the event happen to them. Oddly this is much more common on r slash nosleep which I belive requires stories to be treated as real events, even in comments. Basically this is where I would put Ben drowned, Ted the caver (arguably the first creepy pasta), most .exe horror stories, and genuinely most of the genre could fit into this category. (The above lost episodes mostly fit in here but it’s easier to separate them into specifics). This genre is great because it is for the most part terrifying as the first person pov lets you really expedite what the characters are going through. The real gem of this genre though is stories where the writer is mia, which adds to the suspense of if they survive or not. In most stories in this genre it is simply oh the author is alive or how can you be reading this first person account? But the real interesting stuff happens when it’s a roommate sharing this on their behalf or a story someone heard from a friend of a friend who is now dissappeared. (Ben drowned does maybe the best job of this with the original creepy pastas ending revel being downright bone chilling.)

Oh before I forget, let’s talk about the -Rules creepypastas. Basically any stories that has a title like “I started working at x and there’s so man weird rules !!” This can be anything from a movie theater, convinent store, fast food, and campground. Expanding on that last one, is a subversive take on the genre, How to Survive Camping. Originally posted on r slash nosleep it’s now a publish series ! But besides that there’s genre follow a simple structure: introduce a rule give an example of that rule in action. There stories are normally really creative AND creepy, as they often invoke a fear that there might be something dangerous right in our midst that we are unaware of.

Finally because this is stupid long, I’m going to just quickly mention what I call, Super old cursed object. This is rarer and typically will fall under the lost media category but occasionally there will be something that shines. The main reason I’m mentioning this is to give a shoutout to Cold Relics, which is a series of creepy stores that posits that there are relics from the Cold War era that are not right. Toy Laser gun that vaporizes people, kiddie park that might not have existed, ect ect. It’s great, the horror of something old mysterious.