Folklore, Horror Stories, and the Slender Man by E. Newsom
read: 2024-08-04 through 2024-08-07
2024-08-11
the slender man is the ultimate father figure. the slenderman is the terrible image of the bourgeois man
i think i seeked this one out after watching Jane Schoeburns early youtube doc about slender man, A Self-Induced Hallucination (wonderful title, btw) and yelling at the tv like a sportsfan about how there is no societal meaning to be found from the slenderman stabbings. sometimes horrible events just occur. and where that doc sort of looked at failures tointerpret slenderman via, i guess, traditional moral panic views, this book fills in the other side, the view of slenderman as a folklore figure, USED for meaning rather than meaningful itself
idk, i really liked it