

Violent real life events linked to the Slenderman character increased it’s infamy and even led to a ‘Moral panic’ based around the possible negative influences and danger that the fictional character posed to children. Possibly the most famous Creepypasta character of all time and certainly the one that has crossed most frequently into mainstream media, The Slender Man also known as Slenderman, is a character borne of a variety of earlier influences, but which itself represents an evolution in the uses and development of folklore. But as you open your eyes you realise, they had already looked. You scream to the others telling them the same, telling them not to look. Screwing up your eyes, telling, willing yourself not to look, not to see, not to give in and go to him. He loomed in the distance, like the shadow of some horrible dark truth and you knew instantly that you had to look away, that if you didn’t tear your eyes from that blank featureless face then soon the blank would wash over you, become you and you would walk slowly but surely, as if pulled by some magnetic force toward him, toward him though you feared him, though you were scared of his unnatural height, the aching blank whiteness of his face, the arms that seemed to stretch towards you and the slithering tentacles behind. Taller than any man could be, thinner even the willowy branches that extended ever upward from the trees. When you looked again ‘he’ was still there. Seen the fingers of their branches clawing up toward the sky and beside them, the figure.Īt first you’d thought you must be mistaken, that your eyes in the hazy blur of twilight were playing tricks on you, but no. Turning just for a moment, you had glanced back toward the treeline. As the sunlight began to fade you and your two friends left the playground behind and trudged reluctantly home, knowing that you would be forced to pick up the games and conversations the next day. Though it was autumn the day had seemed long and the brief walk toward home short.
