Quality Standards

Alright, now, I understand that the stories here are supposed to be scary, but I want to be friendlier in this article, so I won't use aggressive humor; I will be a little funnier here, as you can tell from the photo I attached here.

Ok, listen up! You want to make a story and post it here, right? Well, there are some things you need to know in terms of writing, and don't worry, our quality standards won't be as strict as the creepypasta wiki's standards; heck, we allow haunted gaming, lost episodes, and video games about popular franchises (non-existent ones are also allowed).

Other admins are welcome to add some standards here, but don't be too strict.

## Main Fears

Keep in mind, here's what we want from your stories:

**Shock:**

Startling the reader, so for example, if the story mentions somebody screaming in bloody murder and you suddenly hear screaming outside your house, that's what shock is; however, you may not include gore, animal cruelty, or anything like that unless you know how to work one into your story.

**Paranoia:**

Basically, if the protagonist is looking at something unsettling, like a television show or a strange spongebob episode, and you're visualizing it as if you will suddenly see the entity peeking at you through the door, fearing that you might get harmed by it, that's basically what dread is too: seeing a creepy figure.

**Dread:**

The protagonist of the story is playing Super Mario 64, and as they were playing, Luigi was shown. Even if he never appeared, Luigi was seen getting his flesh burned off, revealing his skeleton, visualizing the same thing in the story.

Of course, it doesn't mean copying the stories entirely; that's what you call cliches, while half of these stories are written by the founder of this wiki, Joseph, the one who's writing this.

Now, on to grammar in stories and titles.

## Page Titles

It's recommended that if you don't make every word in your title lower-cased, you try to make some letters capitalized. Let's take two stories as an example.

Sammy the Cat and The Black Table—notice the titles? Yeah, that's exactly how titles should be capitalized; it can't be like Sammy the Catto, which isn't in this wiki anymore; it was a gangster trollpasta. Speaking of trollpasta, we will get to that (for blacklisted subjects), but for now, let's briefly bring it up: we should not write stories like how EVIL PATRIXXX's name is spelled, so SAMMY THE CAXXX, you should move that to the trollpasta wiki; that's where those types of pastas should be.

**"Reddit" formula**; it's exactly how it sounds, and while Crumbling House Next Door may have a similar type of title, it should be noted how clickbait the title sounds; however, it's certainly not clickbait as the titular house in the story is crumbling, still crumbling to this day. However, this story is pretty much hated in the creepypasta community, notably the version on creepypasta.com. Judging by the treatment of the story, it might get removed, so that's why it's here for historical purposes, along with the other stories here.

If you know how to make such a story work, go ahead and do it.

And finally, one sentence: everything is **capitalized.** Seriously, don't do your titles like this.

Example: **GOODBYE SPONGEBOB.**

Just get creative and make a better title. If you happen to make a title like this by accident, go over to my talk page and ask me to fix it.

## What We Look For and What Isn’t Allowed

We simply want stories that scare people, or at least something that creeps you out. Your story doesn't have to completely scare you or anything like that; we want something that at least scares people.

Please don't capitalize every word in your story or lower the words in your story. If you include a lower-case "I" or anything like that, that's okay; it's pretty easy to fix, but if everything in your entire story is like that, I'm very sorry. If your story is like that, please save it in your notes or something, as it may get removed from the wiki. If you wish to post it, make a revised copy on the appeal page, and if the story gets accepted, well, congratulations! You can repost it.

"**Funnymouth**" Language: basically, what I meant by this was words being misspelled. If it's a journal or diary, that's completely allowed; just make sure the words are easy to understand and read clearly. What I meant by funnymouth is that this is how the said creature talks in the story created by slimebeast, but it can be a trope used in trollpastas, just badly spelling every word in the story like Who Was Phone, and other stuff.

Just give everything a perfect description and storyline; it should hopefully be entertaining and at least creepy, as this wiki isn't really creepypasta anymore but more scary stories. I don't want to call these stories creepypasta anymore, as the fandom just expects too much from you. Yes, I'm mentioning this in the quality standards; from my experience of the creepypasta fandom, I feel like the creepypasta fandom should get at least some freedom in their stories, like we write these for entertainment and fun.

## Some Common Errors in Stories (With Help)

Know the differences: "Your" (possessive) "You're" (You are). "There" (a place) "Their" (possessive) "They're" (they are.) "It's" (it is) "Its" (possessive).

Stories not being properly spelled is common:;if you want help writing your stories, you should try running your story through a spellchecker. Notably, the spell checker I use a lot is quillbot.ai, and it works pretty well. I highly recommend it.

Titles being misspelled and such, if you don't know how to make a capitalized title, you should try out a title capitalization tool; they could help.

Don't use zalgo text, however, Scratch's Lost Beta manages to do this well, but yeah, I get it; it may seem creepy and weird, blah, blah, blah, but it's overused, and it's basically a cliche now. Just avoid this at all costs, and if you know how to make it work and at least readable, make such a story.

## Thank You

Well, I have nothing else to say; hopefully that helped you out when writing a story. You are free to ascend into the darkness and write your story; we will see what you cook up.

Have fun, and make sure to read the rules.