Front Matter

Boiling Over: Creepypasta, Slender Man, and the New Face of Fear in Folklore

1-13

At the Modems of Madness The Slender Man, Ostension, and the Digital Age

14-37

“Dark and Wicked Things” Slender Man, the Folkloresque, and the Implications of Belief

38-61

“What Happens When the Pictures Are No Longer Photoshops?” Slender Man, Belief, and the Unacknowledged Common Experience

62-76

Interpreting Photographic Evidence

77-91

Slender Man as Meme Machine

92-97

Taking (Digital) Folklore Seriously

98-104

Slender Man: A Dissenting View

105-111

Monstrous Media and Media Monsters

112-123

Waiting for Slender Man

124-129

Folklore, Horror Stories, and the Slender Man: The Development of an Internet Mythology (Chess and Newsom)

130-134