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Folklore, Horror Stories, and the Slender Man

The Development of an Internet Mythology

Authors:

  1. Shira Chess

    1. University of Georgia, USA

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  2. Eric Newsom

    1. University of Central Missouri, USA

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Shira Chess, Eric Newsom
    Pages 1-14

  3. The Face of the Slender Man

    • Shira Chess, Eric Newsom
    Pages 15-38

  4. Here There Be Monsters

    • Shira Chess, Eric Newsom
    Pages 39-60

  5. Open-Sourcing Horror

    • Shira Chess, Eric Newsom
    Pages 61-75

  6. The Digital Campfire

    • Shira Chess, Eric Newsom
    Pages 76-94

  7. The Slender Man Who Loved Me

    • Shira Chess, Eric Newsom
    Pages 95-117

  8. Facing the Slender Man

    • Shira Chess, Eric Newsom
    Pages 118-128

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 129-143
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About this book

The Slender Man entered the general popular consciousness in May 2014, when two young girls led a third girl into a wooded area and stabbed her. Examining the growth of the online horror phenomenon, this book introduces unique attributes of digital culture and establishes a needed framework for studies of other Internet memes and mythologies.
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Keywords

  • The Slender Man
  • slenderman
  • digital culture
  • digital folklore
  • transmedia storytelling
  • digital storytelling
  • fan studies
  • culture
  • Internet
  • Online
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Reviews

“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)

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Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Georgia, USA

    Shira Chess

  • University of Central Missouri, USA

    Eric Newsom

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About the authors

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.
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