Digital Mythology and the Internet’s Monster: The Slender Man

Exploring a prominent digital mythology, this book proposes a new way of viewing both online narratives and the online communities which tell them.

The Slender Man - a monster known for making children disappear and causing violent deaths to the adults who seek to know more about him - is used as an extended case study to explore the role of digital communities, as well as the question of the existence of a broader digital culture .

Structural anthropological mythic analysis and ethnographic details demonstrate how the Slender Man mythology is structured, and how its everlasting nature in the online communities demonstrates an importance of the mythos.