So I was watching CNN tonight–I’m crazy about CNN, really–and they had that Eric character from Google on.  He was talking about how the Internet is becoming more and more a part of people’s lives

But this isn’t a business blog, so you KNOW I’m gonna link movies to this somehow.  And how I’m going to do it is via the simple and joyful expedient of horror film.

I’ve been crying into my Dew for the last week or so now, realizing that the lack of horror movies out there might not just be temporary, but rather a sign of how truly lousy the economy is.   And just when I was at my lowest, I found THIS.

It’s called Creepypasta, and it’s a storehouse of short original horror stories from pretty much anyone who wants to throw one up there.  If you’ve ever heard something that’s just too creepy to let you sleep at night, you can toss it out there and share the insomnia with people you’ve never even met.  For instance:

An elderly man was sitting alone on a dark path. He wasn’t certain of which direction to go, and he’d forgotten both where he was traveling to and who he was. He’d sat down for a moment to rest his weary legs, and suddenly looked up to see an elderly woman before him. She grinned toothlessly and with a cackle, spoke: “Now your *third* wish. What will it be?”
“Third wish?” The man was baffled. “How can it be a third wish if I haven’t had a first and second wish?”
“You’ve had two wishes already,” the hag said, “but your second wish was for me to return everything to the way it was before you had made your first wish. That’s why you remember nothing; because everything is the way it was before you made any wishes.” She cackled at the poor man. “So it is that you have one wish left.”
“All right,” he said, “I don’t believe this, but there’s no harm in wishing. I wish to know who I am.”
“Funny,” said the old woman as she granted his wish and disappeared forever. “That was your first wish.”

Now, I’m not so naive–nor so new to the net–that I think this is the ONLY such resource out there, but it’s one among many, and I just found it.  In fact, it’s got me to wondering just HOW MANY such resources are out there.  Maybe we don’t need the studios, kids.  Maybe there are people out there making their own on a slow weekend for the sheer lulziness of it all.

So spread the word, o my readership–I am in the market for Internet based horror!

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