Digital folklore : Marble Hornets, the Slender Man, and the emergence of folk horror in online communities

In June 2009 a group of forum-goers on the popular culture website, Something Awful, created a monster called the Slender Man. Inhumanly tall, pale, black-clad, and with the power to control minds, the Slender Man references many classic, canonical horror monsters while simultaneously expressing an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Keller, Dana
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/45673