Genre Listing

This page is intended as a navigation portal for users to find stories by category. It is not an exhaustive list of all categories on the wiki and their usage. Be sure to read this page before applying categories to stories.

Special Categories

These categories may only be added by an admin. They are a good place to start for new wiki readers.

Suggested Reading 104	Recommended stories that are certified quality.
Historical Archive 640	Pastas posted on /x/ and other sources before the creation of this wiki.
Memes 113	Stories that are well cemented in creepypasta lore or are a certified meme.
Contests 30	A grouping of all official contests ran on the wiki and their respective stories.
Contest Winner 34	Stories which have won wiki writing contests.
PotM 116	Stories which have won Pasta of the Month.
Collab 6	Collaborative pieces in various forms.
User Stories 67	A category for wiki authors. See each subcategory for stories by that author.

Genre Categories

These categories list stories by topic. Be sure to read the rules before applying these categories.

Animals 595	Far from your cute, cuddle-worthy pets, these pastas involve animals.
Beings 3,172	Stories involving some unknown being, often with malicious intent.
Cryptids 156	A collection of unsettling cryptozoological-related stories.
Demon/Devil 719	Vile entities from the abyssal depths of Hell.
Ghosts 1,036	How can you have a creepypasta site without ghost stories?
Gods 247	Stories involving eldritch deities.
Monsters 1,201	Things that go bump in the night.
Books 116	Stories involving some manner of books that aren't diaries or journals.
Christmas 69	For when the world is silent, the fire crackles, and the snow is splattered in red.
Computers and Internet 557	Stories with elements of computer weirdness, like cursed files or websites.
Crime 176	Stories involving or from the perspective of the police.
Diary/Journal 755	Stories with a personal twist, meaning they involve someone's diary or journal.
Disappearances 932	People vanish every day...
Dismemberment 1,252	Sometimes, in stories, people just go to pieces.
Dreams/Sleep 1,243	For stories that involve getting a little shut-eye, then maybe never waking up.
Food 61	Food, glorious food! The origins of which may be slightly suspicious...
Halloween 115	For the most horrifying time of the year: Halloween.
History 404	Stories about historic events or settings.
Hospitals 106	Stories about or set in hospitals.
Items/Objects 985	Stories about dark or mysterious items, or which are centered on a specific object.
Longpasta 276	Stories of 50,000 bytes or above.
Lovecraftian 243	IA! IA! This kind of pasta fhtagn for you to read them.
Mental Illness 2,685	Stories involving mental dysfunction or insanity.
Micropasta 1,061	Stories of 2000 bytes or below.
Military 264	Stories set in a military context.
Mirrors 217	Stories that involve mirrors and their strange abilities.
Music 200	♪~ For stories about music.
Nature 496	Stories involving the natural world, tapping in to your primal fears.
Photography 134	Pastas pertaining particularly to peculiar photos.
Places 1,702	Stories centered on a specific location.
Poetry 314	These stories are the bowtie pasta to the atypical spaghetti of prose pastas.
Reality 1,266	Stories made to destroy a pretense about reality you might have had.
Ritual 543	All these stories involve rituals; don't blame us should anything go wrong.
Science 544	Everything from insane experiments to scientifically based mind-control are here.
Space 178	Stories taking place in or dealing with the final frontier: outer space.
Television 186	If you're looking for TV weirdness, this is your category.
Theory 280	Stories that look at something from a different perspective.
Vehicles 183	These stories are either based around vehicles or take place primarily inside them.
Video Games 173	Generally, these are stories about strange goings-on in video games.
Weird 1,080	Stories that can't quite be categorized any other way, or that are just genuinely weird.

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