Talk:Candle Cove/@comment-29269864-20160725102207

In less than 2000 words this story manages to be eveything a good creepypasta should be - it's concise, it's immersive from both a story-telling and technical narrative perspective (obviously this format isn't essential and straightforward stories do work but I reckon all the most successful pastas utilise the epistolary format), it has a subtle creepiness that takes it's time building until the final lines turn around and sucker punch you, it's atmospheric in a way that stays with you even after you've finish reading.

I'll admit, I look at an awful lot of creepypasta classics and wonder how they ever acheived that status. This most definitely isn't one of them. Wonderful example of condensed story telling and a masterclass in Less is More, 9/10.