“Blank and McNeill's Slender Man Is Coming is remarkable for the approaches it opens up. The book is essential for legend scholars and for those documenting how tradition continues to penetrate and inform the Digital Revolution." "A valuable collection of the ongoing work to apply folkloristic concepts to the emerging field of discourse generated by the Internet. The book would be a useful outreach tool to offer those outside the discipline who are unaware of folkloristic thinking about legend ostension and crime, as it offers a brilliant informed view on the relationship between online narratives and violence in real life." "Slender Man is Coming is essential and enjoyable reading for anyone working on belief, legend, the folkloresque, and related topics, but it can be recommended more widely, too. Any folklorist particularly interested in ostensive practices, monsters, and digital folklore, to name a few, will find this work extremely useful." "This seminal work is a valuable read for people interested in legends, children’s folklore, or horror. Michael Dylan Foster, University of California, Davis he authors make significant contributions to theories of ostension, play, questions of real/fake, semiotics, community and individual creation, digital communication, cosplay, and transmedia studies.” The volume is perhaps one of the first dedicated to the Slender Man phenomenon (certainly the first by folklorists). ![]() By illuminating a contemporary phenomenon, these essays make us rethink our understandings of folkloric processes throughout history. “ timely volume of essays on an important topic-the contributors are doing groundbreaking folkloric work.
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