User blog comment:TheLongShadow/Why does Creepypasta matter?/@comment-4620507-20130814052245

When we write long, we typically try to have some sort of plot to glue the story together, just like any long pieces of writing any of us write. In the end, long Creepypastas just become long stories, with the plot mattering more than the scare. For example, Stephen King's Duma Key started off good. Because that was the start. The ending ended with a boss battle. A fucking BOSS BATTLE. When you start writing long, you want a plot, a nice little ending that doesn't say "oh look the start of the story was the best because you didn't exhaust all of your ideas yet, please take this cliche ending as an apology" and a pasta that creeps the reader out all the way, with no "iron walls" in between. Well, since pastas are not haunted houses (and even those get boring and laughable at some point), the long ones, like I've said before, just become normal stories under the 'horror' genre. It's the short ones that matter, and what better place to find short horror stories than this site?

On a not so unrelated note, I read Stephen King books for his writing, not his horror. Only on rare occasions do his books scare me.