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A hive of scary stories? (beehaw.org)
submitted 1 year ago by Griff@beehaw.org to c/chat@beehaw.org
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As a teenager, I remember using my family's phone service to load creepypastas onto a tiny Kindle - a trickle of bad scary stories one after the other. I would get on Reddit where, sometimes sure, I would browse r/nosleep, but I was never completely satisfied by the content there. There were cheesy YouTube narrations. There was r/FearMe. We cut to today and I'm getting my horror fix through podcasts like Knifepoint Horror or rereading the House of Leaves (great book), but I still kind of miss the forum vibe of those community-contributed stories. What websites do the rest of you use to scare yourselves? What are your favorite spooky stories? How have your tastes changed and is there anything you guys miss that we might rebuild here in the Fediverse?

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[–] storksforlegs@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I keep hoping an instance will come along that offers the same kind of thing.

Creepypastas are a bit after my time, but ive always enjoyed the work of Alan Resnick and wham city. They put out a series of unannounced late night "infomercials" that were in fact horror shorts. ( horror comedy, kinda)

I like that they were broadcast to an unsuspecting audience, and discussing them is pretty fun - lots of good analysis since theyre so surreal and nightmarish.

(Apologies if this isnt what you were referring to, hehe) or were you looking for writing more specifically?