On June 8, 2009, Eric Knudsen posted two black and white images he had Photoshopped to a forum called "Something Awful." The forum was hosting a photo manipulation contest and was taking submissions ...

There is a faceless, semi-human monster called Slenderman who stands eight feet tall, has tentacles for arms, stalks and eats small children, and communicates telepathically with his human servants, ...

Every generation creates its own monsters. Folk tales tell of witches and wyrms in the woods, my TV-infused generation feared Jaws in lakes and Bloody Mary in the mirror. This generation gets its ...

The modern world has not abandoned its myths. While few of us ponder Tiamat the dragon who created the seas or Icarus straining to reach the sun, we have plenty of contemporary myths we use to explain ...

The Slenderman case, which began unfolding in May 2014, transfixed the nation. Credit...Chloe Niclas Supported by By Lisa Levy When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we ...

He’s the Internet’s own monster, a ghoul who lurks in its darkest corners and, like the Web itself, has mutated time and again to suit the dreams and desires of his devotees. He is Slenderman, a ...

Here’s the good news about the media panic surrounding “Slenderman,” the child-snatching, tentacle-armed Internet meme-demon who supposedly inspired a pair of 12-year-old girls in Wisconsin to stab a ...