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.

See also: Creepypasta Wiki:Genre Listing and Categories

Special Categories

These categories may only be added by an admin. They are a good place to start for new wiki readers.

Suggested Reading 61	A good start for those who are new to Creepypasta.
Historical Archive 340	For pastas posted on /x/ and other sources before the creation of this wiki.
Memes 98	Stories that are well cemented in creepypasta lore or are a certified meme.
Contests 25	A grouping of all stories entered into wiki writing contests.
Contest Winner 29	Stories which have won wiki writing contests.
PotM 92	Stories which have won Pasta of the Month.
User Stories 43	A supercategory for prolific wiki authors. See each subcategory for more stories by that author.

Genre Categories

These categories list stories by topic. Be sure to read the rules before applying these categories.

Animals 556	Stories involving animals.
Books 106	Pastas that involve some manner of books that aren't diaries or journals.
Beings 3,062	Stories that involve some unknown being, often with malicious intents.
Cryptids 141	A collection of unsettling cryptozoological-related stories.
Demon/Devil 705	Vile entities from the abyssal depths.
Ghosts 1,024	How can you have a creepypasta site without ghost stories?
Gods 225	Stories involving eldritch deities.
Monsters 1,154	Things that go bump in the night.
Christmas 64	For when the world is silent, the fire crackles, and the snow is splattered in red.
Computers and Internet 529	Stories with elements of computer weirdness, like cursed files or websites.
Diary/Journal 743	Stories with a personal twist, meaning they involve someone's diary or journal.
Disappearances 907	People vanish every day...
Dismemberment 1,235	Sometimes, in stories, people just go to pieces.
Dreams/Sleep 1,224	For those stories that involve getting a little shut-eye, then maybe never waking up.
Halloween 91	For the most horrifying time of the year, Halloween.
History 386	Stories about historic events or settings.
Hospitals 94	Stories about or set in hospitals.
Items/Objects 951	Stories about dark or mysterious items, or which are centered on a specific object.
Lovecraftian 232	IA! IA! This kind of pasta fhtagn for you to read them.
Mental Illness 2,647	Stories involving mental dysfunction or insanity.
Military 257	Stories set in a military context.
Mirrors 208	Stories that involve mirrors and their strange abilities.
Music 190	♪~ For stories about music.
Nature 456	Stories involving the natural world, tapping in to your primal fears.
Photography 125	Pastas pertaining particularly to peculiar photos.
Places 1,622	Stories centered on a specific location.
Poetry 298	These stories are the bowtie pasta to the atypical spaghetti of prose pastas.
Reality 1,239	Creepypastas made to destroy a pretense about reality you might have had.
Ritual 491	All these pastas involve rituals; don't blame us should anything go wrong.
Science 520	Everything from insane experiments to scientifically based mind-control are here.
Space 171	Stories taking place in or dealing with the final frontier, outer space.
Television 177	If you're looking for TV weirdness, this is your category.
Theory 286	Stories that look at something from a different perspective.
Vehicles 165	These stories are either based around vehicles or take place primarily inside them.
Video Games 160	Generally, these are stories about strange goings-on in video games.
Weird 891	Stories that can't quite be categorized any other way.

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