The Internet is The New Woods (Monsters, Ostension, & Moral Panics)
Digital Folklore
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The Slender Man
A good scary story is a way to tip your hat at all of the actual evil and bad stuff that happens without allowing yourself to get lost in it or become so obsessed with it. Neil Gaiman put it well saying that scary stories and nightmares let us confront our deepest fears and problems in safe ways with the purpose and goal of overcoming them.
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