I've always found that odd.
its like koans vs long drawn out texts on buddhismthe long texts have details, but its the koans that give you those sudden insightsCreepypastas immediately rip open your delusion of safety and expose you to the black oceans of eldritch evil that exist just beyond the veil
CHEAP THRILLS!
coz /x/ is a better board than /lit/ factos!here you're posting with pretentious poors over there it's schizophrenic prophetic neets and bored millionaires no beating that
>>24930661Squidward's Suicide is unironically a masterpiece of 21st century letters
>>24930661One great aspect that i found from Creepypastas, that i think is rare in novel fiction, is the psychological horror of tying the supernatural to the current technocratic age, where there is a world of phantoms and fake memories manifesting through the media, and the nightmarish imagery of the hallucinatory alternative story scenarios and their metaphysical implications. Of course, this is referring mostly to media and internet culture creepypastas; there's some sick potential there for some kind post-cyberpunk fiction that it's so far untapped. The closest example of this kind of thing that i found was the Kill The Past Noir stories from Suda. >>24931057Funny, personally, in feel /x/ to be like a very decadent mental asylum of frustrated Evangelicals and Atheists.
>>24931057Nobody thinks that. /x/ rarely has creepypasta anymore, it's mostly single post, extremely low effort and extremely low quality larping with the occasional unhinged schizo.
>>24931057/x/ is a shit board, not even a ghost of it's former self
>>24930661It’s been peer reviewed. The ones that suck you never hear about. Which one’s are you reading?
>>24931174I‘m more likely to read shitty pastas than horror books because of continuous quantity in short form (I’d choose a whole ass book more carefully) and also I‘ll try almost anything that‘s lost episode/haunted cartridge type no matter how badly they‘ve been flooded with low effort cliches because I‘m still a sucker for the genre.
>>24931182Show us your very best stories
>>24930661the same reason why short horror films on youtube are far scarier than a feature length film. They are straight to the point
>>24930661It's because horror books need to have a story with beginning, middle, and end, and have character arcs and shit, while creepypastas can just focus on the creepy idea. Picrel, for example.
I have no idea but it's really true. The one that sticks with me and still gives me the chills is some dude sitting in his room while apparently the entire outside world disappears and everyone is trying to get him to go outside so he can also be changed.The closest that got me scared the same way was house of leaves which is essentially written in the style of creepy pasta which makes this mystery even worse because we have prove of a novel being as scary as creepy pastas yet no other novel even came close.I genuinely think there is a huge hole in the market here. Someone that writes in the style of a creepy pasta but in small novella or novel volume will make a killing selling his work.Both women, 4chan users and redditors (the 3 only demographics still reading) would eat your books up. Even i would read it.
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