Penny Dreadful

SFX’S high priestess of horror

THE INTERNET’S OWN BOY Could The Slender Man be the Fifty Shades Of Grey of horror? Not because it’s grim and pervy (we had that first anyway – Christian Grey, meet Pinhead...), but because he’s a phenomenon born of the internet, given life by fans, that’s about to be made into what could be a major movie franchise. Slender Man was the brainchild of a horror forum user called Eric Knudsen. In 2009 he made a creepy Photoshop of a faceless bloke with long arms and a black suit herding a group of children, which he captioned with a bit of mythology about how the Slender Man abducted kids and made them do terrible things. The internet picked it up and ran with it, producing stories, comics, art and videogames…

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SFX (Digital) - 1 Issue, Summer 2016

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