Knudsen's intention was "to formulate something whose motivations can barely be comprehended, and unease and terror in a general population." Other pre-existing fictional or legendary creatures which are similar to the Slender Man include: the Gentlemen, black-suited, pale, bald demons from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Hush" Men in black, many accounts of which grant them an uncanny appearance with an unnatural walk and "oriental" features and The Question, a DC Comics superhero with a blank face, whose secret identity is "Victor Sage", a name similar to Knudsen's alias "Victor Surge". Burroughs, and the survival horror video games Silent Hill and Resident Evil. Lovecraft, the surrealist work of William S. Other inspirations for the character were the Tall Man from the 1979 film Phantasm, H. Knudsen was inspired to create the Slender Man primarily by Zack Parsons' "That Insidious Beast", Stephen King's The Mist, reports of shadow people, Mothman and the Mad Gasser of Mattoon. Subsequent posters expanded upon the character, adding their own visual or textual contributions. These additions effectively transformed the photographs into a work of fiction. 1986, photographer: Mary Thomas, missing since June 13th, 1986. Actual photograph confiscated as evidence. Deformities cited as film defects by officials.
Notable for being taken the day which fourteen children vanished and for what is referred to as “The Slender Man”. One of two recovered photographs from the Stirling City Library blaze. The quote under the second photograph read: 1983, photographer unknown, presumed dead. We didn't want to go, we didn't want to kill them, but its persistent silence and outstretched arms horrified and comforted us at the same time… The quote under the first photograph read: Although previous entries had consisted solely of photographs, Surge supplemented his submission with snatches of text-supposedly from witnesses-describing the abductions of the groups of children and giving the character the name "The Slender Man". Forum poster Eric Knudsen, under the pseudonym "Victor Surge", contributed two black-and-whiteimages of groups of children to which he added a tall, thin, spectral figure wearing a black suit. The thread was a Photoshop contest in which users were challenged to edit everyday photographs to appear paranormal. The Slender Man was created on June 10, 2009, on a thread in the Something AwfulInternet forum.
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