creepypasta

English

Etymology

creepy +‎ pasta, after the pattern of copypasta, itself an alteration of copy and paste.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɹiːpipeɪstə/, /ˈkɹiːpipɑːstə/, /ˈkɹiːpipæstə/

Noun

creepypasta (countable and uncountable, plural creepypastas)

1. (Internet slang) Frightening urban legends and short stories circulated on the Internet.
   • 2012 September 14, Kaz Scattergood, “Spooked by Slender, Fuse (Sheffield Students' Union)”, in magazine‎^[1], volume 9, number 49, page 2:

     The game was born from the familiar 'Slenderman' image, which you may or may not be familiar with from internet memes and creepypasta horror stories.

   • 2013 September, “Huntsman: The Orphanage”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[2], number 46, Adventure Lantern, page 7:

     " […] Listen to the nineteen personal creepypasta-style stories to piece together the mysterious events of that fateful night in 1898, when twelve orphans simply… disappeared!"

   • Autumn 2013, Joey Dussault, “The 10 Best Original Soundtracks In The Gaming World”, in Tastemakers Magazine (Northeastern University)‎^[3], number 33, page 11:

     The eerie “Lavender Town” theme has infiltrated the nightmares of an entire generation of children and has even inspired one of the most well known “creepypastas” on the Internet.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:creepypasta.

Hypernyms

• scarelore

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English creepypasta.

Noun

creepypasta f (plural creepypastas)

1. creepypasta