User blog comment:AndresAznaran/Where Creepypastas (Might) fit/@comment-24918243-20140629033140

I think they have everything to do with penny dreadfuls. Keep in mind that in their time, both penny dreadfuls and pulp magazines where not considered art either.They were considered a cheap, disposable entertainment for the masses in an age before TV and radio.

Classic pulp characters like Doc Savage, Conan, Tarzan and the Shadow, to name a few were pretty much considered literary trash by the most educated people in their time. It was only much later they actually began to have some literary significance. That came out of nostalgia and in a big part from Hollywood seeking for franchises that were cheap to purchase for their cheaply produced serials (which became a kind of classic in their own right).

Will they have any significance in the future? Only time will tell. But I would be willing to wager that some of them will, after being retold and rewritten countless times and also that some of the authors who wrote them will evolve into more mainstream careers.