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This chapter describes stories that seem to break with the standard formula and functions of the Slender Man stories as housed on sites like Creepypasta, Slender Man-related subreddits, and Fanfiction.net. Often, these are abstracted in the form of fan fiction or parody, or used to represent certain marginalized viewpoints, such as through romanticizing or eroticizing the horror character. The telling of these stories imparts to their creators new media literacies, and the perception of their legitimacy is considered in terms of the culture of the communities that created them.
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© 2015 Shira Chess and Eric Newsom
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Chess, S., Newsom, E. (2015). The Slender Man Who Loved Me. In: Folklore, Horror Stories, and the Slender Man: The Development of an Internet Mythology. Palgrave Pivot, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137491138_6
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