User blog comment:Pawsoft Sins/A curious wonder/@comment-25052433-20190611073413

Mystery and horror go together perfectly. My advice is not to think of anything you write here as a "Creepypasta" but rather just a horror story that you intend to post online. When we start boxing fiction genres into even deeper sub-genres (horror into Creepypasta for example) it becomes difficult just write due to what we may believe are expectations or rules to that specific sub-genre.

For example, some people believe that in order for a story to be a Creepypasta, it has to be short or first person written or end with a twist or be annonymous... etc etc etc. Before you know it you're restricting your own creativity so tightly that you can't even tell the story you set out to write.

So, if you have a mystery story that you want to post here, I say go for it. Just make sure it falls into the Quality Standards of the site. While it should have some elements of horror you can certainly lead with the mystery style and just use horror to enhance. Whether it's scary or not will always be a subjective result based on the reader, so write what you think would be a gripping tale with elements of fright but do so with your voice as an author. What you think is scary and what I think is scary are probably very different, so write to your standards because those are the only ones you can control.

Best of luck! Don't forget to consider the Writer's Workshop if you're new to writing here and feel free to reach out with any questions or concerns you might have.