Genre Listing
This page is intended as a navigation portal for users to find stories by category. It is not an exhaustive list of all categories on the wiki and their usage. Be sure to read this page before applying categories to stories.
Special Categories
These categories may only be added by an admin. They are a good place to start for new wiki readers.| Suggested Reading
102 |
Recommended stories that are certified quality. |
| Historical Archive
723 |
Pastas posted on /x/ and other sources before the creation of this wiki. |
| Memes
111 |
Stories that are well cemented in creepypasta lore or are a certified meme. |
| Contests
30 |
A grouping of all official contests ran on the wiki and their respective stories. |
| Contest Winner
34 |
Stories which have won wiki writing contests. |
| PotM
118 |
Stories which have won Pasta of the Month. |
| Collab
6 |
Collaborative pieces in various forms. |
| User Stories
70 |
A category for wiki authors. See each subcategory for stories by that author. |
Genre Categories
These categories list stories by topic. Be sure to read the rules before applying these categories.
| Animals
596 |
Far from your cute, cuddle-worthy pets, these pastas involve animals. |
| Beings
3,167 |
Stories involving some unknown being, often with malicious intent. |
| Cryptids
157 |
A collection of unsettling cryptozoological-related stories. |
| Demon/Devil
720 |
Vile entities from the abyssal depths of Hell. |
| Ghosts
1,035 |
How can you have a creepypasta site without ghost stories? |
| Gods
247 |
Stories involving eldritch deities. |
| Monsters
1,202 |
Things that go bump in the night. |
| Books
115 |
Stories involving some manner of books that aren't diaries or journals. |
| Christmas
69 |
For when the world is silent, the fire crackles, and the snow is splattered in red. |
| Computers and Internet
556 |
Stories with elements of computer weirdness, like cursed files or websites. |
| Crime
177 |
Stories involving or from the perspective of the police. |
| Diary/Journal
754 |
Stories with a personal twist, meaning they involve someone's diary or journal. |
| Disappearances
930 |
People vanish every day... |
| Dismemberment
1,245 |
Sometimes, in stories, people just go to pieces. |
| Dreams/Sleep
1,246 |
For stories that involve getting a little shut-eye, then maybe never waking up. |
| Food
64 |
Food, glorious food! The origins of which may be slightly suspicious... |
| Halloween
116 |
For the most horrifying time of the year: Halloween. |
| History
402 |
Stories about historic events or settings. |
| Hospitals
109 |
Stories about or set in hospitals. |
| Items/Objects
986 |
Stories about dark or mysterious items, or which are centered on a specific object. |
| Longpasta
277 |
Stories of 50,000 bytes or above. |
| Lovecraftian
243 |
IA! IA! This kind of pasta fhtagn for you to read them. |
| Mental Illness
2,678 |
Stories involving mental dysfunction or insanity. |
| Micropasta
1,059 |
Stories of 2000 bytes or below. |
| Military
262 |
Stories set in a military context. |
| Mirrors
217 |
Stories that involve mirrors and their strange abilities. |
| Music
202 |
♪~ For stories about music. |
| Nature
502 |
Stories involving the natural world, tapping in to your primal fears. |
| Photography
134 |
Pastas pertaining particularly to peculiar photos. |
| Places
1,708 |
Stories centered on a specific location. |
| Poetry
314 |
These stories are the bowtie pasta to the atypical spaghetti of prose pastas. |
| Reality
1,263 |
Stories made to destroy a pretense about reality you might have had. |
| Ritual
544 |
All these stories involve rituals; don't blame us should anything go wrong. |
| Science
546 |
Everything from insane experiments to scientifically based mind-control are here. |
| Space
180 |
Stories taking place in or dealing with the final frontier: outer space. |
| Television
188 |
If you're looking for TV weirdness, this is your category. |
| Theory
278 |
Stories that look at something from a different perspective. |
| Vehicles
182 |
These stories are either based around vehicles or take place primarily inside them. |
| Video Games
172 |
Generally, these are stories about strange goings-on in video games. |
| Weird
1,079 |
Stories that can't quite be categorized any other way, or that are just genuinely weird. |
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