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Creepypasta vs Creepy - What's the difference?

creepypasta | creepy |

As a noun creepypasta

is (label) frightening urban legends and short stories circulated on the internet.

As an adjective creepy is

producing an uneasy fearful sensation, as of things crawling over one's skin.

creepypasta

English

Noun

  • (label) Frightening urban legends and short stories circulated on the Internet.
  • * 2012 , Kaz Scattergood, " Spooked by 'Slender'", Fuse (Sheffield Students' Union), Volume 9, Issue 49, 14 September 2012, page 2:
  • The game was born from the familiar 'Slenderman' image, which you may or may not be familiar with from internet memes and creepypasta horror stories.
  • * 2013 , " Hunstman: The Orphanage", Adventure Lantern , Issue 46, September 2013, page 7:
  • Listen to the nineteen personal creepypasta -style stories to piece together the mysterious events of that fateful night in 1898, when twelve orphans simply… disappeared!"
  • * 2013 , Joey Dussault, " The 10 Best Original Soundtracks In The Gaming World", Tastemakers Magazine (Northeastern University), Issue 33, Fall 2013, page 11:
  • The eerie “Lavender Town” theme has infiltrated the nightmares of an entire generation of children and has even inspired one of the most well known “creepypastas ” on the Internet.
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  • creepy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Producing an uneasy fearful sensation, as of things crawling over one's skin.
  • Strangely repulsive.
  • See also

    * creepy-crawly

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