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Home-Made Creepypasta: The First One Hundred Stories: Terrifying Tales Featuring Slenderman, Jeff the Killer, Eyeless Jack, BEN Drowned, Laughing Jack, the Rake, Zalgo, and Other Internet Horrors

Mark Watson

Home-Made Creepypasta: Book One – The First Hundred Stories Terrifying Tales from the "Fiction by Mark Watson" Substack Slenderman watches. Jeff the Killer waits. BEN is still drowning. And the Rake is already under your bed. Step into the shadow-soaked heart of internet horror with Home-Made Creepypasta: Book One, a chilling anthology collecting the first 100 twisted tales submitted to the cult-favorite Fiction by Mark Watson Substack. These aren’t just stories—they’re warnings. Whispers. Glitches in the veil that separates what we imagine from what’s actually waiting in the dark. Featuring original stories that tangle with the likes of: Slenderman – lurking just beyond the treeline Jeff the Killer – smiling in your hallway Eyeless Jack – hungry and silent BEN Drowned – corrupted data made flesh Laughing Jack, Zalgo, The Rake, and more... Unearthed from inboxes. Shaped in sleep paralysis. Shared with trembling hands. Whether you’re a long-time fan of creepypasta lore or just daring enough to crack the lid on something sinister, Home-Made Creepypasta is your invitation to the digital campfire… and you’re not alone out here. They’ve been reading over your shoulder the whole time. If Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark warped your childhood... If The Twilight Zone twisted your sense of reality... If Goosebumps was your gateway and Candle Cove your descent into obsession... Then this is the book you’ve been waiting for. Home-Made Creepypasta: Book One is a dark, digital-age cousin to the great horror anthologies that came before it. But unlike collections curated from literary circles and TV writers' rooms, this one grew in the shadows—home-grown horror shared by fans, obsessives, and night-thought scribes who’ve stared too long into flickering screens. Sourced from the cult-followed "Fiction by Mark Watson" Substack, this first volume contains 100 terrifying tales that twist the legacy of internet horror into something new and unshakably personal. These are the stories that feel too real, too familiar—like memories you forgot you had. If Black Mirror exposed the technological dystopia of the future, Home-Made Creepypasta shows you the one hiding in your browser history. If Stephen King's Night Shift made you fear the ordinary, this book dares you to revisit the strange, nostalgic, and nightmarishly familiar world of early internet horror—the one we all thought we made up. You didn’t imagine these stories. You inherited them. This is not just an anthology. It’s a reckoning. A dark archive of every ghost story whispered online after midnight—and now it’s sitting in your hands. Read it. But don’t read it alone. They’ve already noticed you’re looking. From Acclaimed Author Mark Watson — Award-Winning Children’s Writer Turned Master of Horror What if the imaginary friends, the voices in the attic, and the shadows in your childhood drawings… were never imaginary at all? In Home-Made Creepypasta: Book One – The First Hundred Stories, bestselling and award-winning children’s author Mark Watson dives headfirst into the chilling world of internet horror—curating an unforgettable anthology that’s already sending shivers down the spines of thousands of devoted Substack readers. Hand-picked from true submissions to Watson’s viral “Fiction by Mark Watson” series, these are not your average scary stories. These tales were whispered by readers, passed along in comment threads, and unearthed from memory like buried bones. They're raw, unfiltered, and terrifyingly personal.

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GenresLiterature & FictionGenre FictionHorrorShort Stories & AnthologiesAnthologiesMystery, Thriller & Suspense

374 pages

English edition · First published 2025 by Mark Watson Books · ISBN 9781918045314

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