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In addition to many a strange stories from people who appear to have seen him, as well as photographs by people who have not been heard from since. A more-or-less full list can be found at [http://slenderversemedia.tumblr.com/ here]; links to the All The Tropes articles for the works can be found in [[The Slender Man Mythos/Stories]].
The [[Alternate Reality Game]] site Unfiction has a whole [https://web.archive.org/web/20130828074953/http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/index.php?f=264 forum] dedicated to the mythos, and reviews of stories can be found at [http://slendereview.blogspot.com/ The Slendy Review] blog. Non-story information can be found at [http://slenderia.blogspot.com/ Encyclopedia Slenderia] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20160109162642/http://slenderbloggins.net/ Slenderbloggins]. An in-game [[YouTube]] channel [http://www.youtube.com/user/compileTRUTH compileTRUTH] also summarises some series. An [https://web.archive.org/web/20131210040303/http://www.slendermanmythos.com/ extensive fan site] is in the works, created by one of our tropers.
Sadly, Slender Man burst into mainstream awareness in the summer of 2014 when [http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/03/justice/wisconsin-girl-stabbed/index.html?iref=allsearch a pair of twelve-year-old Wisconsin girls stabbed a third girl nineteen times] in a misguided attempt to impress The Slender Man, whom they thought to be real. Fortunately, their victim survived the attack and at least one of the attackers was found to be incompetent to stand trial (and possibly mentally ill), which seems to have gone a long way towards preventing an [[New Media Are Evil|overreaction]] by self-appointed [[Moral Guardians]] against the Mythos.
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