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
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
22 | A grouping of all stories entered into wiki writing contests. |
| Contest Winner
26 | Stories which have won wiki writing contests. |
| PotM
77 | Stories which have won Pasta of the Month. |
| User Stories
40 | 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
507 | Stories involving animals. |
| Books
96 | Pastas that involve some manner of books that isn't a diary or a journals. |
| Beings
2,896 | Stories that involve some unknown being, often with malicious intents. |
| Cryptids
133 | A collection of unsettling cryptozoological-related stories. |
| Demon/Devil
679 | Vile entities from the abyssal depths. |
| Ghosts
989 | How can you have a creepypasta site without ghost stories? |
| Gods
205 | Stories involving eldritch deities. |
| Monsters
1,055 | 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
510 | Stories with elements of computer weirdness, like cursed files or websites. |
| Diary/Journal
717 | Stories with a personal twist, meaning they involve someone's diary or journal. |
| Disappearances
852 | People vanish every day... |
| Dismemberment
1,199 | Sometimes, in stories, people just go to pieces. |
| Dreams/Sleep
1,167 | For those stories that involve getting a little shut-eye, then maybe never waking up. |
| Halloween
74 | For the most horrifying time of the year, Halloween. |
| History
359 | Stories about historic events or settings. |
| Hospitals
81 | Stories about or set in hospitals. |
| Items/Objects
900 | Stories about dark or mysterious items, or which are centered on a specific object. |
| Lovecraftian
204 | IA! IA! This kind of pasta fhtagn for you to read them. |
| Mental Illness
2,564 | Stories involving mental dysfunction or insanity. |
| Military
241 | Stories set in a military context. |
| Mirrors
198 | Stories that involve mirrors and their strange abilities. |
| Music
174 | ♪~ For stories about music. |
| Nature
406 | Stories involving the natural world, tapping in to your primal fears. |
| Photography
115 | Pastas pertaining particularly to peculiar photos. |
| Places
1,533 | Stories centered on a specific location. |
| Poetry
280 | These stories are the bowtie pasta to the atypical spaghetti of prose pastas. |
| Reality
1,200 | Creepypastas made to destroy a pretense about reality you might have had. |
| Ritual
453 | All those pastas involving rituals; don't blame us should anything go wrong. |
| Science
485 | Everything from insane experiments to scientifically based mind-control are here. |
| Space
164 | Stories taking place in or dealing with the final frontier, outer space. |
| Television
159 | If you're looking for TV weirdness, this is your category. |
| Theory
283 | Stories that look at something from a different perspective. |
| Vehicles
144 | These stories are either based around vehicles or take place primarily inside them. |
| Video Games
152 | Generally, these are stories about strange goings-on in video games. |
| Weird
748 | Stories that can't quite be categorized any other way. |
Disclaimer
In the event you write, upload, or transmit via any means a story, page, blog post, or article about a subject matter that is determined, at an admin's discretion, to be 1) in a highly clichéd genre/category/subject and 2) poorly written, clichéd, generic, or terrible in general, then the admins are free at their discretion and leisure to delete the page at any time without warning or recourse on their part.
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