The Slender Man entered the general popular consciousness in May 2014, when two young girls led a third girl into a wooded area and stabbed her. Examining the growth of the online horror phenomenon, this book introduces unique attributes of digital culture and establishes a needed framework for studies of other Internet memes and mythologies.

About the Author
Shira Chess is Assistant Professor in the Department of Telecommunications at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of Georgia, USA.
Eric Newsom is Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Central Missouri, USA.

Reviews
"This work covers much of the Slender Man, his birth and subsequent life online. It also looks hard at how modern tales are written, and the similarity with how tales were told and evolved in our past. ... it is a worthy coverage of just how the internet is being used by us to enable the numinous corners of our consciousness." (Trevor Pyne, Magonia Review of Books, The Magonia Blog, pelicanist.blogspot.co.uk, April, 2017)

Book Information
ISBN 9781137498526
Author S. Chess
Format Hardback
Page Count 143
Imprint Palgrave Pivot
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan