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 309	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 23	A grouping of all stories entered into wiki writing contests.
Contest Winner 26	Stories which have won wiki writing contests.
PotM 83	Stories which have won Pasta of the Month.
User Stories 39	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 523	Stories involving animals.
Books 98	Pastas that involve some manner of books that isn't a diary or a journals.
Beings 2,950	Stories that involve some unknown being, often with malicious intents.
Cryptids 135	A collection of unsettling cryptozoological-related stories.
Demon/Devil 691	Vile entities from the abyssal depths.
Ghosts 1,004	How can you have a creepypasta site without ghost stories?
Gods 213	Stories involving eldritch deities.
Monsters 1,098	Things that go bump in the night.
Christmas 61	For when the world is silent, the fire crackles, and the snow is splattered in red.
Computers and Internet 524	Stories with elements of computer weirdness, like cursed files or websites.
Diary/Journal 725	Stories with a personal twist, meaning they involve someone's diary or journal.
Disappearances 877	People vanish every day...
Dismemberment 1,197	Sometimes, in stories, people just go to pieces.
Dreams/Sleep 1,193	For those stories that involve getting a little shut-eye, then maybe never waking up.
Halloween 80	For the most horrifying time of the year, Halloween.
History 367	Stories about historic events or settings.
Hospitals 83	Stories about or set in hospitals.
Items/Objects 915	Stories about dark or mysterious items, or which are centered on a specific object.
Lovecraftian 221	IA! IA! This kind of pasta fhtagn for you to read them.
Mental Illness 2,592	Stories involving mental dysfunction or insanity.
Military 249	Stories set in a military context.
Mirrors 202	Stories that involve mirrors and their strange abilities.
Music 180	♪~ For stories about music.
Nature 434	Stories involving the natural world, tapping in to your primal fears.
Photography 121	Pastas pertaining particularly to peculiar photos.
Places 1,570	Stories centered on a specific location.
Poetry 292	These stories are the bowtie pasta to the atypical spaghetti of prose pastas.
Reality 1,208	Creepypastas made to destroy a pretense about reality you might have had.
Ritual 461	All those pastas involving rituals; don't blame us should anything go wrong.
Science 494	Everything from insane experiments to scientifically based mind-control are here.
Space 163	Stories taking place in or dealing with the final frontier, outer space.
Television 166	If you're looking for TV weirdness, this is your category.
Theory 283	Stories that look at something from a different perspective.
Vehicles 157	These stories are either based around vehicles or take place primarily inside them.
Video Games 155	Generally, these are stories about strange goings-on in video games.
Weird 802	Stories that can't quite be categorized any other way.

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