He Sees You When You're Sleeping...

Slenderman. He's always been a character I've been wary of. When I first read the story of the tall faceless creature, I had a nightmare about him following me to school in the ditch that I used to walk along to get to my High School. The amount of characterization the creator of the story was able to give to such a characterless monster was frightening to me. He was something you could brush off as your imagination or a dream. On the Creepypasta blog about Slenderman, he is described as the following.

"The limbs were long and inhumanly awkward, with bulky joints branching off into several arms, not unlike the branches of a tree. The creature was drapped in a black suit, somehow manking the thing more nightmarish to her. The icing on the proverbial cake, however, was what passed as the hellish thing’s face. It was as though her mind blurred the ghastly visage to spare itself further shock and horror." - Creepypasta

The story uses his already unsettling character of Slenderman, and adds chillingly vivid details to the story to make that dark night much darker for the main character and anyone else who has nightmares about the tall pale monster. Characterization is the scariest part of any Creepypasta (for me at least.) The way these dark monsters are described is what I find the most unsettling. I'm never scared of being lost in the woods, or being home alone, what is the most chilling to me is the monster that can get you anytime and anywhere, no matter how hard you try to distance yourself from the creature, it will always find you. It will always get you.