User blog comment:Rufusrage56/My introduction to pasta/@comment-25148755-20160605204512

For me I think I first heard the term creepypasta while browsing imgur. The first one that really stuck with me was Slender Man...not because he was particularly scary but because an average someone had created something that ultimately became an icon in its own right. From there I did a little more research when I came across the wiki. I'd written The Wicker House about a year before that and tried a couple times, unsuccessfully, to have it published (which it sadly still is). Anyhow I figured if I couldn't get someone to pay me for it I may as well put it up where other people could at least read and give me feedback. And the rest, as they say, is history.