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Shinigami.Eyes wrote: Sykokillah wrote: A. V. Christine wrote: It's hard to say. I've always liked the darker side of things and I always sided with the villain in books and movies. When I was little I would beg my cousin to read me the 'real' fairytales, the Brother Grimm versions that always included a lot of blood and scarier concepts. I was never really phased by horror and I just grew to embrace it.

As for how I discovered Creepypastas, these guys at my school always talk about Slenderman (and mind you I live near the woods) and one day after school  they told me "Watch your back walking home today, Slenderman might get you!" I was interested in what Slenderman was and they told me the condensed version of it. Since then I've been reading Creepypastas. I' e heard the Brother's Grimm versions were really dark compared to Disney's cheery versions of their fairy tales, so naturally I've always wanted to read them. The Grimm Brother's original fairy tales were very dark in comparison. There generally WERE no happy endings. Of course, the intention of such frightening stories was to keep children indoors and safe, but if you grow up with the warmer and brighter stories, you'd never imagine that the original ones could be so morbid.

Really, I suggest you take a look at this. The REAL Stories Behind These Disney Movies These are only some examples. And of course there are several others, but I wasn't going to go digging around. I have to make it to my lousy job. Thanks, I'll take a look. But the no-happy endings thing is actually something I like, I guess because it's more realistic and less fantasy.