“Hey, anyone remember that old TV show, Candle Cove?”

Mike Painter: “I was wondering if I could take a look at those files.”

Sheriff: “May I ask why? It’s been 28 years since they dragged those kids out of the woods.”

Mike Painter: “Yeah. Missing all their teeth.”

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Will Wiles of Aeon wrote that Candle Cove was “among the best creepypastas out there” and a good example of using the messageboard and forum format as a storytelling tactic. The Verge has written praise for the creepypasta, stating that it was “a perfectly dark spin on our nostalgia for the half-remembered stories of our childhood, that realization that the things we liked as kids were much, much creepier than we thought.” It was made into the Channel Zero SYFY-Channel series in 2016.

Read about Creepypastas, here:

https://io9.gizmodo.com/is-creepypasta-a-form-of-folklore-1495902436