Folklore, Horror Stories, and the Slender Man: The Development of an Internet Mythology
The Slender Man entered the general popular consciousness in May 2014, when two young girls led a third girl into a wooded area and stabbed her. Examining the growth of the online horror phenomenon, this book introduces unique attributes of digital cultur
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137491138.0001
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137491138.0001
Folklore, Horror Stories, and the Slender Man: The Development of an Internet Mythology Shira Chess University of Georgia, USA and
Eric Newsom University of Central Missouri, USA
DOI: 10.1057/9781137491138.0001
folklore, horror stories, and the slender man Copyright © Shira Chess and Eric Newsom, 2015. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2015 978-1-137-49852-6 Portions of Chapter 3 were previously published as “Open Sourcing Horror: The Slender Man, Marble Hornets, and Genre Negotiations.” Information, Communication, & Society 15, no. 3 (2013): 374–393. The article is available at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369118X. 2011.642889#.U-0YgKh8EWA All rights reserved. First published in 2015 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States—a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Ma
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