Name: Slender Man
ISBN: 9780008174088

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Slender Man

One man’s search for the truth about one of the most intriguing urban legends ever—the modern bogeyman, Slender Man—leads him down a dark, dangerous path in this creepy supernatural fantasy that will make you question where the line between dark myth and terrifying reality begins. Lauren Bailey has disappeared. As friends at her exclusive school speculate on what happened and the police search for answers, Matt Barker dreams of trees and a black sky . . . and something drawing closer. Through fragments of journals, news stories, and online conversations, a figure begins to emerge—a tall, slender figure—and all divisions between fiction and delusion, between nightmare and reality, begin to fall. Chilling, eerie, and addictively readable, Slender Man is a unique spine-tingling story and a brilliant and frightening look at one of the most fascinating—and diabolical—mythical figures in modern times.

Very torn on whether I liked the ending or find it disappointing.

Jasper

Katie Holem

Brianna Brown

If you love creepypastas and mixed media novels then this is for you!

Elska Bee

2.5 I think?

It had it's moments I guess, but it was so incredibly slow to get going and the main character was kind of annoying so it all felt like it dragged. I never skim fiction, but some sections were just boring so I did. I dunno... it's a cool idea, but I think it just needed like a bit of tweaking and could have done with a twist or two just to make things more interesting and even perhaps scary?

I'm a terrible gauge for what's scary because I find virtually no horror scary, but this one definitely was quite far off for me. It just took so long despite how short the book is to get to anything interesting and didn't use that time to effectively build the stakes. Instead it felt like 200 pages of setup and 130 pages of proper horror out of nowhere.

Also, very minor spoiler: the ending? disappointing. Considering it's 'found footage' style there could have been a great epilogue, but the opportunity was wasted imo. Also I just gotta say it, hated the newspaper articles. They were so unrealistic to me and the most poorly written aspect that it was distracting. The reddit posts were somewhat better but also really distracting how they were formatted wrong? Like nearly every comment had 0 points? It felt like they just forgot to change the default before printing lol

Slender Man

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