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 82	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 518	Stories involving animals.
Books 97	Pastas that involve some manner of books that isn't a diary or a journals.
Beings 2,938	Stories that involve some unknown being, often with malicious intents.
Cryptids 136	A collection of unsettling cryptozoological-related stories.
Demon/Devil 688	Vile entities from the abyssal depths.
Ghosts 1,000	How can you have a creepypasta site without ghost stories?
Gods 210	Stories involving eldritch deities.
Monsters 1,099	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 522	Stories with elements of computer weirdness, like cursed files or websites.
Diary/Journal 721	Stories with a personal twist, meaning they involve someone's diary or journal.
Disappearances 871	People vanish every day...
Dismemberment 1,188	Sometimes, in stories, people just go to pieces.
Dreams/Sleep 1,187	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 362	Stories about historic events or settings.
Hospitals 83	Stories about or set in hospitals.
Items/Objects 908	Stories about dark or mysterious items, or which are centered on a specific object.
Lovecraftian 217	IA! IA! This kind of pasta fhtagn for you to read them.
Mental Illness 2,590	Stories involving mental dysfunction or insanity.
Military 245	Stories set in a military context.
Mirrors 199	Stories that involve mirrors and their strange abilities.
Music 179	♪~ For stories about music.
Nature 429	Stories involving the natural world, tapping in to your primal fears.
Photography 120	Pastas pertaining particularly to peculiar photos.
Places 1,563	Stories centered on a specific location.
Poetry 291	These stories are the bowtie pasta to the atypical spaghetti of prose pastas.
Reality 1,202	Creepypastas made to destroy a pretense about reality you might have had.
Ritual 456	All those pastas involving rituals; don't blame us should anything go wrong.
Science 489	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 163	If you're looking for TV weirdness, this is your category.
Theory 284	Stories that look at something from a different perspective.
Vehicles 155	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 784	Stories that can't quite be categorized any other way.

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