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This is the best Creepy Pasta ever

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Jesus christ, that story in the OP was so terrible. Was that supposed to be a twist or something? What a waste of time.
 
As much as I wanted to love this book, and as much as I recognize it is pretty good, I seriously wasn't frightened a bit when reading it, even when I purposely only read it at night.

Really?

It terrified me. It took away my ability to go "Well I'm reading something scary, but I'm safe in my house." because the entire idea of a house as a safe place was completely twisted in that book.
 
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Someone recommended this to me just yesterday.
 
If only creepy pastas were actually creepy. Oh well.

I think part of the problem of Creepypastas is that unless you encounter them unexpectedly in the wild, it turns on a sort of figurative light in the attic which prevents you from being affected by it. My favorites were ones that were stumbled upon with little buildup of OH MAN THIS IS THE BEST. Because I wasn't prepared for it the story was able to work my brain out a little more as the creepyness emerged. There are still not that many genuinely creepy ones but the few out there that are done right really do a service to the...genre?
 
If you want a unique and rather strange Creepypasta, Greasepaint's a good one. It doesn't really have any twists; it's unnerving because the writer was clearly off his meds.
 
It's really strange how we're hardwired to believe. Just as an example, I dare anyone to play the Midnight Man game. It's so easy to show how easily we subscribe to the idea of immaterial ideas and concepts, as even the most gnostic atheists will be creeped out by some of these creepy-pastas. The one in the OP was absolutely stupid, though.

But try that Midnight Man game. And don't try it to prove that you can do it. Try it to see if you aren't completely shaken by the time you're doing the 21st knock. You can stop right there if you want to. Why the fuck does it matter? It's complete bullshit anyway. But it's a thing that will freak most people out. Just so hardwired are we, that even if we don't even believe in such a benevolent and heavily argued thing as any of the major religion's god, but have no problem with being completely freaked out by an absolutely made up entity called "the midnight man", an obviously fictitious entity.
 
It would be a movie about a book about a book about a movie about a house...

And some guy would just talk over everything and point out that it's wrong.

Honestly they could just do The Navison Record and it would be fine. I'd watch a guy fumble around in the dark with a rope tied around his waist. Actually, now I want to watch Grave Encounters again...
 
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