New special issue of Contemporary Legend published!

The new special issue of Contemporary Legend has been published! It is available here: https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/cl/index

This special issue, which I guest edited, focuses on Creepy Pasta, Digital Horror, and Legend Formation. It includes articles that began as papers written by my students in a graduate Contemporary Topics seminar I taught focused on folklore and mythology in games and interactive media. The issue includes articles by these students as well as other scholars. The special issue covers creepypasta and related digital horror topics including The Backrooms, Herobrine, and Siren Head, among others, and focuses on themes including nostalgia, fear, and anxiety in creepypasta; ostension and legend-tripping in digital spaces; and the role of new platforms and shifting subjectivities in our understanding and experience of creepypasta, digital horror, and legend formation online.