User blog comment:LyraAlluse/I've Been Published/@comment-28938497-20150513174005/@comment-25755652-20150513181253

I like the genre of creepypasta because it reminds me of the old fairy tales that parents would tell their kids to stay out the the woods or something. I went back and read some of the Japanese, Norse, and Celtic fairy tales that my mom read to me as a kid and realized just how dark they were. Like there was this one Japanese fairy tale about an evil badger who cooks a farmer's wife and feeds the farmer his wife in soup form, while taking the form of his wife. And that isn't even the darkest story. I like to view creepypastas as kind of warning tales that can get across morals (albeit in sometimes a very dark or twisted way). That being said, I am more of a fan of psychological thrillers than pure horror stories. I like psychological thrillers because they really get into your head and make you think about things. But scary stories have their place too.