Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25077005-20171026031732/@comment-25307213-20180119073951

The short answer is "no".

The original story is about a guy who goes into NoEnd House based on an email he received from a former friend. The story follows him through each of the rooms, focusing on the ways in which each room is disturbing or beyond comprehension -- a cheap K-Mart-style Halloween display transitions to inexplicable feelings of dread; a blank room with a chair, a lamp, and too many shadows; a room of unnatural darkness and silence; a room in which an entire forest seems to grow with unseen bugs crawling on and biting the mc the deeper he goes; a room in which the door has disappeared, inhabited by a little girl who is somehow simultaneously a towering demonic monster; a room that was the entire outside world, complete with his own house; and a few more for good measure.

It's an atmosphere piece. The entire story is, at its core "I got an email from an old friend and went to NoEnd House.  Each room was worst than the last, and to this day I have never walked back out."

The show takes a broader look at this idea and seems to ask questions like "What if this is just one account of many?", "What mechanics could lead to experiences like those in this account?", and "What about the entities encountered? What makes them function, and how is that worse than simply encountering them?"

Without giving spoilers to the plot of the season, the show uses the framework of NoEnd House to inform a completely independent narrative about characters with completely different experiences to those of the original character in the creepypasta text.

And that seems to be how SyFy is going to continue rocking it.

The author of "Search and Rescue Woods" worked with Channel Zero's producer and head writer, Nick Androsca, to make the adaptation to "Butcher's Block", and he's stated that this is not a true-to-text adaptation.

In a Reddit announcement, he said "I would like to stress that this is NOT a direct copy of the series, and is its own story.  However, I am 100% confident that you guys are going to love it!"

So, three for three, they're doing stories inspired by the original pastas, but which are entirely new narratives, and not intended to be true-to-text adaptations.