Folklore, Horror Stories, and the Slender Man

Shira Chess is Assistant Professor in the Department of Telecommunications at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of Georgia, USA.Eric Newsom is Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Central Missouri, USA.

• Introduction 1. The Face of the Slender Man 2. Here There Be Monsters 3. Open-Sourcing Horror 4. The Digital Campfire 5. The Slender Man Who Loved Me 6. Facing the Slender Man

“This work covers much of the Slender Man, his birth and subsequent life online. It also looks hard at how modern tales are written, and the similarity with how tales were told and evolved in our past. … it is a worthy coverage of just how the internet is being used by us to enable the numinous corners of our consciousness.” (Trevor Pyne, Magonia Review of Books, The Magonia Blog, pelicanist.blogspot.co.uk, April, 2017)