Must Read Creepypastas

"The World's Greatest School Psychologist" - One of the most uncomfortable and yet strangely wholesome Creepypastas ever written.

"The Smiling Man" - An enduring classic that will make you legitimately afraid to walk alone at night.

“Candle Cove” - Another classic you’re most likely familiar with. This pasta has an entire legacy behind it and for good reason. It still stands as one of the “lost media” creepypastas that are actually scary.

“The Burgrr Entries” - Super surreal cosmic horror with great commentary and gut wrenching descriptions. Reads like if H.P. Lovecraft wrote Goosebumps stories. Long as fuck but definitely worth the read.

“The Horror From The Vault” - A spectacularly written and truly Lovecraft-inspired story full of great David Cronenberg body horror and world building. Another long as fuck read but more than worth it if you love eldritch horror. There are multiple sequels and spin offs to this pasta as well.

“The New Fish” - The all too real horrors of life in prison with a supernatural twist to really make things interesting. About an hour read but it’s sympathetic characters and the situations they are forced into get you invested quick.

“All The King’s Horses“ - A truly grotesque and gut wrenching story of an abusive mother who goes to great lengths to “fix” her child. Strong themes of abuse and gore if that triggers you.

“The Broodmother” - Let’s just say you wouldn’t be able to find a story that’s worst for arachnophobes if you tried and even if you’re not, it is legitimately one of the most uncomfortable to read creepypastas I’ve come across.

“Mr. Widemouth” - Although this pasta’s monster is often mentioned along the likes of Skinny Fellow and George The Stabby Man, this story has good presentation and the titular fiend is a legitimately unnerving and deplorable little fuck who feels like he came straight out of a twisted fairy tale.

"Face In The Fog" - A man living out in the middle of nowhere is haunted by a strange woman who appears in the fog and is slowly getting closer to his front door every night.

“The Pastel Man” - An underrated Creepypasta monster from an equally underrated story pulls at your heartstrings and asks you how high of a price you’re willing to make to save your loved ones.

"Tooth Fairies" - Old school fairies from European paganism are scary as fuck. This pasta knows that and applies the terrifying truth of fairies to the beloved childhood fable quite effectively.

"What's Eating Alice?" - A description of a girl’s descent into depression and madness told in vivid, unnerving detail. Mentions of abuse and suicide if that triggers you.

“Why I Became an Atheist” - Sometimes “not believing in God” has two meanings behind it…

"Look Up in The Sky" - Does the “evil Superman” story in a fresh and actually unnerving way.

“The Gristers” - A story of a man dealing with an infestation of what he thought were rats… they are not rats.

"I Am A 911 Operator" - Legit nightmare-inducing if you’re afraid of the very real threat of prowlers and home invasions.

"Annie96 is Typing" - Another nerve-wracking home invasion story from the perspective of a teenager home alone chatting online with her boyfriend. I like to think the monster in this story is the same one in “I Am A 911 Operator”.

"Emergency Broadcast: Unidentified Creature" - A masterfully well done analog horror where an emergency broadcast warns you of a massive, unidentified creature that has risen from the ocean and things go from bad to worse as the government tries to stop it.

The “Faces” Series - Following the story of a serial killer who paints disturbing portraits of his mangled victims, this is bar-none the most unnerving and nightmare-inducing analog horror series I have ever come across, the “monster” in this makes the Alternates from Mandela Catalogue look like the Care Bears in comparison thanks to the story’s more grounded presentation.

“The Tangi Virus” Series - An excellently executed sci-fi analog horror about a virologist’s accounts surrounding a terrifying new virus and a government conspiracy to allow the unheeded spread of said virus. This analog horror is followed up by “The Oracle Project” and “The Sinkhole” so check those out as well.

“The Children Under The House” - By the same creator of the Tangi Virus series, this analog horror follows a child psychologist interviewing a mute child who is convinced that children like her are living under her house. A conventional ghost story on the surface but it’s executed very well both in story and presentation and it gets pretty unnerving at times.