In her book, Folklore, Horror Stories, and the Slender Man: The Development of an Internet Mythology, Professor Shira Chess of the University of Georgia connected the Slender Man to ancient folklore about fairies. Knudsen's intention was "to formulate something whose motivations can barely be comprehended, and unease and terror in a general population." Other pre-existing fictional or legendary creatures which are similar to the Slender Man include: the Gentlemen, black-suited, pale, bald demons from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode " Hush" men in black, many accounts of which grant them an uncanny appearance with an unnatural walk and "oriental" features and The Question, a DC Comics superhero with a blank face, whose secret identity is "Victor Sage", a name similar to Knudsen's alias "Victor Surge". Burroughs, and the survival horror video games Silent Hill and Resident Evil. Lovecraft, the surrealist work of William S. Other inspirations for the character were the Tall Man from the 1979 film Phantasm, H. Knudsen was inspired to create the Slender Man primarily by Zack Parsons' "That Insidious Beast", Stephen King's The Mist, reports of shadow people, Mothman and the Mad Gasser of Mattoon. Subsequent posters expanded upon the character, adding their own visual or textual contributions. These additions effectively transformed the photographs into a work of fiction. 1986, photographer: Mary Thomas, missing since June 13th, 1986. The stabbing inspired the documentary Beware the Slenderman, which was released in 2016.
He has also appeared in a 2015 film adaptation of Marble Hornets, where he was portrayed by Doug Jones, and an eponymous 2018 film, where he was portrayed by Javier Botet.īeginning in 2014, a moral panic occurred over the Slender Man after readers of his fiction were connected to several violent acts, particularly a near-fatal stabbing of a 12-year-old girl in Waukesha, Wisconsin. The character has appeared in the video game Slender: The Eight Pages (2012) and its successor Slender: The Arrival (2013), as well as inspiring the Enderman in Minecraft.
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Fiction relating to the Slender Man encompasses many media, including literature, art and video series such as Marble Hornets (2009–2014), wherein he is known as The Operator. The Slender Man has become a pop culture icon, although he is not confined to a single narrative but appears in many disparate works of fiction, typically composed online. Stories of the Slender Man commonly feature him stalking, abducting, or traumatizing people, particularly children. He is depicted as a thin, unnaturally tall humanoid with a featureless head and face, wearing a black suit. The Slender Man (also spelled Slenderman) is a fictional supernatural character that originated as a creepypasta Internet meme created by Something Awful forum user Eric Knudsen (also known as "Victor Surge") in 2009.
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